Weak wind and fading solar force heavy imports and high prices as brown coal anchors thermal output.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 38%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 17%
74%
Renewable share
3.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.8 GW
Solar
23.3 GW
Total generation
24.4 GW
Net import
194.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
79.0% / 164.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 8.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching the last orange-red light; brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a darkening sky; biomass 3.3 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of compact wood-chip-fed power stations with short stacks and wispy grey exhaust; wind onshore 1.9 GW is rendered as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly motionless; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon beyond a coastal inlet; natural gas 1.2 GW is a single CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack and heat shimmer at centre-left; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular boiler house and moderate chimney beside the lignite towers; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam spillway in a wooded valley at the far right edge. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in September: a narrow band of deep orange-red along the low western horizon rapidly giving way to steely grey-blue and darkening indigo above, heavy cloud cover at 79% rendered as layered stratocumulus pressing downward oppressively. The atmosphere feels thick, heavy, and expensive — humid late-summer air at 21°C with lush green deciduous trees in full late-season foliage, grasses slightly yellowing. Virtually no wind motion in vegetation or flags. Transmission lines on tall lattice pylons cross the middle distance, symbolising the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich chiaroscuro colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.