Wind (26.9 GW combined) and solar (18.3 GW) dominate at 86% renewables; 2.4 GW net import covers the remaining gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 31%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.3 GW
Solar
58.9 GW
Total generation
-2.5 GW
Net import
91.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.9°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
62.0% / 103.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
96
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.2 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly visible grey sea. Solar 18.3 GW fills the centre-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled on steel racks, catching the last diffused evening light. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the left middle ground as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, adjacent to a sprawling lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Biomass 3.8 GW sits just left of centre as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with cylindrical storage silos and wood-chip piles, thin exhaust wisps rising. Natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks and a rectangular heat-recovery steam generator near the left foreground. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam built into a wooded hillside in the far left background with white water cascading from spillways. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single square chimney and a modest coal stockpile, tucked behind the brown coal complex. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in mid-June Berlin time: the sun is low on the western horizon casting a warm orange-amber glow along the lower sky, fading upward through bands of peach and grey into a partly overcast canopy at 62% cloud cover — broken cumulus clouds lit underneath with copper and gold, with patches of pale blue-grey sky visible between them. The atmosphere feels moderately heavy and warm, hinting at the elevated electricity price. Vegetation is lush early-summer green — tall grasses, wildflowers, deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature around 16°C gives a mild, humid feel with soft atmospheric haze. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous sky — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy for every turbine blade, PV panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels, no people.