Strong solar at 30.6 GW leads generation, but low wind forces 21 GW of thermal plants online, keeping prices elevated.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 13%
67%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.6 GW
Solar
63.5 GW
Total generation
-1.8 GW
Net import
97.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 116.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
229
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.6 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat agricultural land, angled south, glinting intensely under a cloudless pale-blue spring sky with full morning daylight at 09:00. Brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air. Natural gas 6.8 GW appears centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular heat-recovery buildings, thin exhaust wisps drifting upward. Hard coal 5.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a dark brick-and-steel coal station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts visible. Wind onshore 4.1 GW is represented by a sparse cluster of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the far right background, rotors barely turning in the calm air. Wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on the distant horizon. Biomass 4.5 GW is a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a rounded silo and low steam vent nestled among bare early-spring trees at mid-left. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a narrow river in the foreground. The landscape is early spring: fields are pale green and brown, trees have only the faintest buds, frost still lingers in shadowed hollows, temperature near 3 °C. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the sunshine, with a subtle haze and a warm amber-yellow cast suggesting high electricity prices and economic tension. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower flute, and smokestack rivet. No text, no labels.