Solar at 28.3 GW and wind at 14.1 GW dominate; 3.2 GW net imports cover remaining demand on a hot, clear afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
85%
Renewable share
14.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.3 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
3.2 GW
Net import
108.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.8°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
4.0% / 441.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
107
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.3 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and foreground, angled south, glinting under intense late-afternoon sunshine. Wind onshore 10.9 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on rolling green hills in the centre-right middleground, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.2 GW is visible as a distant cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right. Brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 3.3 GW sits as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a short smokestack and biomass storage silos to the left of centre. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plant and the central hills. Hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam visible along a river cutting through the valley floor. Hard coal 0.9 GW appears as a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular stack barely visible behind the lignite station. The sky is almost entirely clear with only the faintest wisps of cirrus at 4% cloud cover, deep blue overhead transitioning to warm golden-white near the western horizon where the sun sits at roughly 35 degrees elevation, casting long warm shadows eastward. The air has a slightly heavy, hazy, oppressive quality reflecting the 108 EUR/MWh price and 26.8°C heat — late summer vegetation is lush but slightly wilted, fields of dry golden grass between the solar arrays, mature deciduous trees in full dark-green canopy. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers, dramatic luminous light worthy of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism — meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell reflection, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.