Solar leads at 19.2 GW but 12.4 GW net imports are needed to meet the 47.6 GW evening demand peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 55%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
88%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.2 GW
Solar
35.2 GW
Total generation
-12.4 GW
Net import
93.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
57.0% / 340.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
87
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.2 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland, angled toward a sun partially veiled by broken cumulus clouds. Wind onshore 5.6 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on distant hills to the right, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is a faint row of turbines barely visible on a hazy far horizon. Biomass 3.5 GW occupies the left-centre as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power plant with a short stack emitting thin white steam. Brown coal 2.5 GW sits in the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the sky. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete spillway visible along a river winding through the foreground meadow. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT plant with a clean metallic exhaust duct, tucked beside the brown coal station. Hard coal 0.4 GW is suggested by a single dark smokestack barely visible behind the gas plant. The lighting is late-afternoon dusk at 17:00 in June: the sun is still above the horizon but descending, casting warm golden-orange light across the landscape with long shadows; the sky above transitions from pale blue to a faint amber-orange near the lower horizon, with 57% broken cloud cover painted in warm peach and grey tones. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive — a haze hangs over the industrial structures reflecting the high electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf frame the edges. Temperature is warm at 23°C with wildflowers dotting the meadow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete shell. No text, no labels.