Solar at 37.5 GW leads a 71% renewable mix, with 18 GW of coal and gas providing thermal backup on a calm spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 60%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.5 GW
Solar
63.0 GW
Total generation
+2.3 GW
Net export
86.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
58.0% / 310.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels, aluminium-framed, stretching across roughly 60% of the canvas from centre to right, angled toward a partially veiled sun. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising against the sky. Hard coal 5.2 GW sits just left of centre as a coal-fired power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts of dark fuel. Natural gas 4.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with gleaming cylindrical exhaust stacks and a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip plant with a low industrial building and a single modest smokestack emitting pale vapour. Wind onshore 1.3 GW appears as a few widely spaced three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at the far right, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond a sliver of grey-blue sea visible at the far right edge. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a river that curves through the middle ground. Time of day: 14:00 Berlin, full spring daylight; the sky is partly cloudy at 58% cover—broad swathes of cumulus clouds drifting across a blue sky, direct sunlight breaking through in dramatic shafts that illuminate the solar panels with bright specular reflections. Temperature 9.6°C and early April: vegetation is pale green with early budding deciduous trees and patches of brown earth, no snow. Wind 4.4 km/h: grass barely moves, flags hang limp. Price 86.3 EUR/MWh—moderately high: the atmosphere feels weighted, a faint haze sits along the horizon giving a sense of tension, the clouds have slightly heavy grey undersides. Style: 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 with visible brushwork, atmospheric depth through aerial perspective, golden-warm light contrasting with cool cloud shadows. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, PV panel cell grids visible, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry precise, CCGT stacks with correct proportions. The composition feels monumental, a sweeping panoramic industrial landscape of the Energiewende. No text, no labels, no people prominent.