Solar dominates at 23.8 GW as late-afternoon demand of 60.9 GW requires 13.4 GW net imports and thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 50%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.8 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
-13.4 GW
Net import
91.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
47.0% / 402.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
121
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle spring hillsides, angled toward a low western sun. Wind onshore 6.4 GW and offshore 3.5 GW together occupy the centre-right as clusters of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, some on green rolling hills, others faintly visible on a distant grey sea horizon, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Brown coal 4.1 GW fills the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes drifting eastward. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos adjacent to the cooling towers. Natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single sleek exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-left. Hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a conveyor belt and modest stack, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley at far left. Dusk lighting: the sun sits just above the western horizon casting a deep orange-red glow along the lower sky, the upper sky transitioning from warm peach to deepening blue-violet, early dusk atmosphere. The air feels heavy and slightly hazy—an oppressive warmth suggesting high electricity prices—with golden-amber light reflecting off the PV panel glass. Spring vegetation: bright green fields, some wildflowers, deciduous trees in fresh leaf. Temperature 17°C: mild, shirtsleeve weather, no frost. Cloud cover 47%: broken cumulus clouds catching the orange sunset light underneath while their tops darken to grey-blue. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth—with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.