Solar dominates at 24.1 GW on a clear April evening, but 16.2 GW net imports cover the consumption gap as dusk approaches.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 54%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.1 GW
Solar
44.5 GW
Total generation
-16.2 GW
Net import
79.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 386.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.1 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching intense low-angle sunlight, their surfaces blazing orange-gold; wind onshore 6.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on rolling green hills in the mid-ground, rotors turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 1.0 GW is a small cluster of turbines visible on the far horizon at sea; brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the sky; natural gas 2.5 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage yard and modest chimney with faint grey smoke; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam with spillway visible in a valley at far left; hard coal 1.1 GW is a single smaller cooling tower beside the brown coal plant. The sky is a dusk scene at 17:00 in early April — the sun sits very low on the western horizon, casting a deep orange-red glow across the lower third of the sky, the upper sky shifting from warm amber to deepening blue. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and hazy, reflecting a high electricity price. Spring vegetation — fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees — covers the gentle hills at 15°C. Zero cloud cover means a perfectly clear sky with brilliant colour gradients. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower concrete texture, and exhaust stack detail. The scene evokes a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.