Strong solar at 28 GW leads generation, but calm winds and 7 GW net imports push prices to 154.5 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 15%
77%
Renewable share
3.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
7.0 GW
Net import
154.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
31.0% / 357.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
169
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling late-summer hills, their surfaces gleaming under direct afternoon sunlight angled from the west-southwest. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting in still air, connected to a sprawling lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Biomass 3.8 GW appears in the mid-left as a timber-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and stacked woodchip storage. Natural gas 2.1 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and streamlined turbine hall near the centre-left. Wind onshore 2.0 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge with rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by turbines on the far horizon above a faint coastal line. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular chimney beside a coal stockpile. Hydro 1.1 GW is represented by a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far right. Time is 16:00 on a late September afternoon: full daylight, sun moderately low in the west, warm golden light with visible shadows lengthening. Sky is 31% cloud cover — mostly blue with scattered cumulus. Temperature 19.7°C: green vegetation just beginning the first hints of autumn yellowing. Air feels heavy and still, no wind movement in grasses or trees, conveying a slightly oppressive, expensive atmosphere with hazy warmth near the horizon. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, luminous treatment of light on industrial and natural surfaces. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV module grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. The scene reads as a grand panoramic masterwork of Germany's industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels, no lettering.