Solar at 39.3 GW drives 84% renewable share under clear skies; coal and gas provide residual baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
10.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.3 GW
Solar
64.8 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
79.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 445.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
115
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.3 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and foreground of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly clear sky. Wind onshore 6.9 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle green hills in the centre-right middle distance, their blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 3.6 GW is suggested by smaller turbines visible on a hazy horizon line to the far right. Brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside conveyor belts and open-pit excavation terraces. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit, positioned centre-left. Hard coal 2.0 GW is rendered as a traditional power station with a square chimney and coal bunkers just behind the gas plant. Biomass 3.6 GW shows as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short stack and stored timber logs, tucked between the coal complex and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a thin silver waterfall in the far left background against forested slopes. The lighting is full bright midday September sun, direct radiation casting sharp short shadows to the north, warm golden-white light. Temperature 21°C: late-summer vegetation, green fields beginning to show hints of early autumn yellowing. The atmosphere carries a faintly heavy, warm haze suggesting the moderately high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with luminous depth—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.