Wind and fading solar lead 71.5% renewable generation while 13 GW net imports cover the evening demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 25%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
14.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.7 GW
Solar
42.1 GW
Total generation
13.0 GW
Net import
164.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.5°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
49.0% / 123.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
206
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, blades turning visibly in moderate wind. Solar 10.7 GW fills the centre-right foreground as expansive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled on open farmland, catching low-angle amber light. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left third as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the hazy sky, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at the plant base. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical digesters, wood-chip silos, and a modest smokestack with faint exhaust. Natural gas 2.9 GW sits left of centre as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery steam generator. Hard coal 2.6 GW shows as a smaller traditional power station with a rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys emitting thin grey smoke. Wind offshore 1.3 GW appears in the far background as a distant row of turbines on the hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea coast. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure nestled in a forested valley at the far right edge. The sky is a dusk sky at 18:00 in August—the sun is still above the horizon but low, casting long golden-orange light across the landscape with a warm amber glow on the western horizon fading upward into deeper blue; partial cloud cover at 49% creates dramatic cumulus formations lit orange and gold from below, with patches of blue sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, hazy with summer warmth at 23.5°C—lush green vegetation, full summer foliage on deciduous trees, ripe wheat fields between the solar arrays. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective, deep warm tonal palette reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete ribs. No text, no labels.