Solar at 31.1 GW drives 63% of generation on a cloudless August morning, with coal and gas providing baseload support.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 63%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
80%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.1 GW
Solar
49.3 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
96.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 321.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
142
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling German farmland, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midmorning sun. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the still air. Hard coal 2.9 GW appears just right of the brown coal as a smaller power station with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel. Natural gas 2.4 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with slim exhaust stacks and a single modest vapour trail, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Wind onshore 2.6 GW is represented by a modest row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with cylindrical silos and a gently smoking stack set among trees at the midground. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley to the far right. The sky is entirely cloudless, a deep cerulean blue, with full summer daylight at 10:00 AM — sharp shadows falling northwest. Temperature is a pleasant 21°C; the vegetation is lush high-summer green with mature crops in adjacent fields. Despite the bright day, the atmosphere carries a faintly heavy, hazy quality suggesting elevated market tension — a warm shimmer over the landscape, heat distortion above the coal towers. 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 deliberate brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminosity — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology depicted. No text, no labels.