Solar leads at 20.7 GW with wind at 12.8 GW, but 4.7 GW net imports fill the morning demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 39%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
73%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.7 GW
Solar
52.9 GW
Total generation
4.7 GW
Net import
143.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 82.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
193
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills, their surfaces gleaming under a clear morning sun low in the east; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; wind onshore 8.7 GW appears as a long line of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles standing across the mid-ground ridge, their blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 4.1 GW is visible in the far background as a cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line above a distant sea; natural gas 3.9 GW sits in the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.9 GW appears beside the brown coal plant as a smaller facility with a single square chimney and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and timber storage yard in the left middle ground; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam with white spillway water in the lower-left corner. The sky is completely clear with zero clouds, bright morning daylight from the east casting long westward shadows, the atmosphere carrying a faintly oppressive warmth and industrial haze suggesting high electricity prices. Summer vegetation is lush but the temperature of 13.5°C gives a slight cool-morning mist in the valleys. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.