Solar leads at 20.8 GW but calm winds and cold temperatures drive 7.9 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 39%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
64%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.8 GW
Solar
53.6 GW
Total generation
-7.9 GW
Net import
113.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
37.0% / 46.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
244
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled south, catching diffuse morning light; brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 8.0 GW appears centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; hard coal 4.5 GW sits beside the lignite station as a blocky power plant with a single large smokestack; wind onshore 6.8 GW is rendered as a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in nearly still air; wind offshore 0.6 GW appears as two tiny turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.5 GW is a mid-ground timber-clad CHP plant with a modest chimney and wood-chip storage dome; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at far right. The sky is early morning daytime at 08:00 Berlin time — the sun is low in the east, partially veiled by scattered clouds covering roughly a third of the sky, casting a cool, somewhat muted light with occasional brighter patches; the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price, with a slight haze softening distant features. The temperature is near freezing: bare deciduous trees, frost on field edges, last patches of morning rime on rooftops. The air is very still — no motion blur on grass or flags, emphasising the wind calm. Rendered as a highly detailed panoramic oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.