Solar at 38.8 GW leads an 81.6% renewable mix, with brown coal and gas providing residual thermal generation during net exports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
9.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.8 GW
Solar
65.3 GW
Total generation
+4.6 GW
Net export
111.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.1°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
55.0% / 339.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
128
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.8 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hills, their glass surfaces catching bright daylight; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into hazy sky; wind onshore 7.4 GW appears as a long line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a ridge to the right, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.0 GW is visible as a distant row of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint coastal waterline; natural gas 4.3 GW sits center-left as two compact CCGT power plants with slim exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage yard and a single smokestack near center-right; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt near the brown coal complex; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a wooded valley at far right. Time is 10:00 on an August morning: full bright daylight, sun high in the east-southeast, partly cloudy sky with cumulus clouds covering roughly half the dome, direct sunlight casting defined shadows between cloud gaps. Temperature is warm at 24°C: lush deep-green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between solar arrays, heat shimmer rising from dark panel surfaces. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and oppressive — a warm hazy quality to the air suggesting elevated market tension, with a faintly yellowish tint to the cumulus bases. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels, no human figures.