Solar at 37 GW leads an 85% renewable mix, but 30 °C heat drives imports and a 91 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
85%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.1 GW
Solar
55.3 GW
Total generation
-2.8 GW
Net import
90.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 423.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.1 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering rolling central German farmland across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames catching diffuse white light. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Wind onshore 3.7 GW appears as a line of seven three-blade turbines on a distant ridge left of centre, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, positioned between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.7 GW is depicted as a concrete run-of-river weir with a small powerhouse along a river cutting through the foreground. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far horizon. Hard coal 0.9 GW appears as a small older power station with a single square chimney near the lignite complex. The sky is 98% overcast with a thick, heavy blanket of pale grey-white cloud pressing down oppressively, yet strong diffuse daylight at 16:00 in late June illuminates everything brightly from above — no direct sun disk visible but considerable ambient brightness. The atmosphere feels heavy and humid at 30 °C; lush dark-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, heat haze shimmering above the solar panels and asphalt roads. The oppressive warm atmosphere reflects the elevated 91 EUR/MWh electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, 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 CCGT exhaust stack. The scene reads as a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.