Solar leads at 19.6 GW under clear skies, but low wind and 4.1 GW net imports keep coal and gas running and prices elevated.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 45%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 12%
71%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.6 GW
Solar
43.4 GW
Total generation
4.1 GW
Net import
137.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 65.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.6 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, glinting under bright morning sun from the east; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the still air, adjacent lignite conveyors and open-pit terraces visible; hard coal 4.2 GW appears just left of centre as a traditional coal-fired power station with tall rectangular stacks trailing grey exhaust; natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower between the coal plant and the solar fields; wind onshore 4.5 GW is represented by a modest row of three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on the far horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; biomass 4.0 GW is a medium-sized facility with a wood-chip silo and low smokestack near the coal complex; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the foreground. Time is 08:00 in August: full daylight, sun low in the eastern sky casting long golden-warm shadows westward across the landscape, sky completely cloudless and deep blue overhead, slightly hazy near the horizon. Temperature is mild at 15.6 °C — lush green summer vegetation, dewy meadows, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the clear sky, a faint industrial haze hanging over the thermal plants suggesting high electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic sense of scale contrasting the industrial sublime against pastoral nature. Every power plant rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV module grid patterns, cooling tower hyperbolic geometry, conveyor structures. No text, no labels.