Solar dominates at 25.7 GW as late-afternoon demand exceeds domestic supply, requiring 5.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 62%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.7 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
-5.5 GW
Net import
77.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.2°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
18.0% / 507.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the right two-thirds of the composition, angled toward a low western sun; brown coal 3.2 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising against the sky; wind onshore 4.0 GW is represented by a cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a distant ridge, their blades barely turning in still air; wind offshore 1.1 GW appears as tiny turbines on the far horizon line; biomass 3.5 GW sits as a modest timber-clad combined heat and power plant with a short stack emitting pale exhaust, nestled among trees in the left-centre; hydro 1.7 GW is visible as a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming spillway in the foreground valley; natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT plant with a slim exhaust column near the cooling towers; hard coal 0.3 GW is a small smokestack barely visible behind the gas plant. The lighting is late dusk at 17:00 in June — the sun is still above the horizon but low in the west, casting long amber-orange shadows across the landscape, the upper sky transitioning from warm blue to a faintly orange-tinted haze near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, hinting at the 77.7 EUR/MWh price — a warm, humid shimmer over the fields, heat distortion visible above the dark PV arrays. Lush midsummer vegetation in full deep green, dry-edged from 29°C heat, wildflowers along field margins. The sky is mostly clear with only thin wispy clouds (18% cover). Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro from the low sun, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower flute. No text, no labels.