Solar leads at 22.5 GW with 15.2 GW wind; net imports of 5.4 GW cover remaining demand at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 41%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
15.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.5 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
5.4 GW
Net import
129.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 305.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.5 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels glinting under direct afternoon sun; wind onshore 8.5 GW appears as clusters of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on rolling hills in the middle distance; wind offshore 6.7 GW shown as a line of tall turbines on the hazy horizon above a distant sea; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising against the sky; natural gas 3.7 GW rendered as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hard coal 2.3 GW as a single dark-brick power station with a squat chimney and wisp of grey smoke behind the gas plant; biomass 3.8 GW depicted as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and wooden-chip conveyor at the left-centre edge; hydro 0.9 GW as a small concrete weir with cascading water in the lower-left foreground. Time of day: late afternoon, 16:00 in early October — the sun is at a moderate-low western angle casting long warm golden light across the landscape, shadows stretching eastward. Sky is nearly cloudless at 2% cover, a deep luminous blue with only the faintest wisps of high cirrus. Temperature 19.9°C: vegetation is early-autumn, mixed greens and first golden-brown tones on deciduous trees, grass still partly green. Wind at 9.9 km/h gives gentle motion to turbine blades and light ripple to distant water. Atmosphere feels subtly heavy and hazy, conveying the elevated price — a warm, slightly oppressive golden weight to the air. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a pale horizon, dramatic interplay of industrial forms against pastoral terrain. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels.