Solar at 26.9 GW leads an 88% renewable mix as summer heat drives 44.8 GW demand and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.9 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
0.8 GW
Net import
116.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 411.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
83
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under a bright but partially clouded summer sky. Wind onshore 6.1 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines on gentle ridgelines in the centre-left middle distance, their rotors turning lazily in light breeze. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a wood-clad industrial facility with a low exhaust stack emitting thin white vapour, nestled among linden trees in the left foreground. Brown coal 2.7 GW rises in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy steam plumes drifting eastward. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack beside a substation, placed between the cooling towers and wind turbines. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by a thin line of turbines on the hazy northern horizon. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller single cooling tower with a dark conveyor belt visible at its base, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam structure with a cascading spillway in a wooded valley at the far right edge. The sky is bright afternoon daylight at 16:00 in August — the sun high in the west-southwest, partially obscured by cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky, casting dappled shadows across the solar fields. The atmosphere feels heavy, hazy, and oppressive with summer heat at 28 °C — shimmering heat distortion rises from roads and rooftops, suggesting the elevated electricity price. Vegetation is full midsummer green — mature canopies of beech and oak, golden wheat stubble in harvested fields between solar arrays. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with bluish haze in the distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, panel racking, cooling tower hyperbolic geometry, transformer yards. The scene feels monumental and luminous, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.