Strong solar and heavy brown coal anchor generation, but 20 GW net imports are needed in near-windless evening heat.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 22%
66%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.2 GW
Solar
34.9 GW
Total generation
-20.2 GW
Net import
134.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.2°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 386.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
253
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland, angled toward the low western sun. Brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the still air. Natural gas 2.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin slender exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 1.9 GW sits beside the lignite station as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biomass CHP facilities with domed digesters and low stacks, nestled among trees in the middle distance. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a cascade of water in the far middle ground. Wind onshore 0.9 GW is represented by just two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning. The time is 18:00 in late May — dusk is approaching: the sun sits low on the right horizon casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, with the sky transitioning from warm amber near the horizon to a deepening blue overhead. The air is perfectly still — no motion in grasses or leaves — conveying the windlessness. Temperature is 25°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, warm late-spring vegetation. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the golden light, with a subtle haze near the horizon suggesting heat and high electricity prices. High-voltage transmission lines run from the left edge toward the viewer, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.