Solar at 43.2 GW dominates a hot, low-wind summer afternoon with brown coal providing 5.0 GW baseload support.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 9%
87%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.2 GW
Solar
57.4 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
97.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 558.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.2 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds of the canvas with vast rolling fields of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their aluminium frames glinting under a bright but hazy white sky. Brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-yard and squat stacks in the left middle ground. Natural gas 1.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass plant. Wind onshore 1.5 GW appears as a sparse row of three tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at far left. Hard coal 0.8 GW shows as a single conventional power station with a rectangular stack emitting a thin grey ribbon. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is hinted at by tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. The sky is fully overcast with a flat milky-white layer yet intensely luminous — full afternoon daylight at 16:00, the sun's disc faintly visible as a bright diffuse patch overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and humid at 27°C — summer haze warps the distant horizon. Vegetation is lush deep green, dry-tipped summer grasses and mature deciduous trees in full leaf. The mood is weighty and dense, reflecting high electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, golden-ochre and slate-grey tones, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower fluting. No text, no labels.