Wind dominates at 21.6 GW with fading solar at 14.6 GW; modest thermal and 3.1 GW net imports balance evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 30%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
85%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.6 GW
Solar
48.7 GW
Total generation
-3.1 GW
Net import
33.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 156.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
107
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German farmland, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.3 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Solar 14.6 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as expansive ground-mounted arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching the last diffuse grey light, their surfaces reflecting the overcast sky. Brown coal 3.6 GW sits at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into heavy cloud, beside a conveyor-fed lignite plant. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, positioned just left of centre behind the solar arrays. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single square cooling tower and a thin dark stack, tucked beside the brown coal complex. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip storage domes and a mid-sized biomass CHP plant with green-painted silos emitting light white steam, placed between the gas plant and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river in the mid-ground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, but the time is 17:00 in late March — dusk is beginning: a narrow band of warm orange-red glow sits on the lower western horizon, while the rest of the sky is heavy grey darkening to slate above. The temperature is a cool 9°C; early spring vegetation is sparse — bare-branched deciduous trees, pale green shoots on fields, brown earth. The atmosphere is calm but slightly heavy, consistent with a moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic chiaroscuro where the fading dusk light catches turbine blades and panel glass. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.