Solar leads at 24.8 GW but calm winds and 13.9 GW net imports push prices near 100 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 54%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.8 GW
Solar
46.3 GW
Total generation
-14.0 GW
Net import
99.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 455.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
217
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.8 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle spring-green hills, angled south, catching diffuse white light; brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising lazily into still air, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired power station with a corrugated-steel boiler building and a single smokestack trailing grey-brown exhaust; natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a polished exhaust stack and heat-recovery steam generator adjacent to the coal complex; hard coal 2.7 GW shows as a traditional brick-and-steel coal plant with two tapered chimneys and a rail-fed coal yard; wind onshore 1.1 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a hazy horizon line; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley at far right. The sky is entirely overcast—a uniform, bright white-grey canopy with no blue patches—creating flat, shadowless midday-equivalent illumination at 16:00 Berlin time; the light is warm but diffuse, lending a slightly oppressive, heavy atmosphere consistent with a high electricity price. Temperature is a mild 16.8 °C; vegetation is fresh spring green with blooming rapeseed fields adding patches of yellow. The air is perfectly still—no motion in grass, no ripples on water. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy depth—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and smokestack detail. The composition feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.