Solar leads at 18.6 GW with 10 GW wind; 9.3 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 48%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
88%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.6 GW
Solar
38.8 GW
Total generation
-9.3 GW
Net import
71.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 226.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
84
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.6 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills; wind onshore 7.8 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the mid-distance with rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a river or distant coast; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a modest stack and wispy white exhaust; brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the left side as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack beside one of the cooling towers; hydro 1.4 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir in the foreground with water spilling over; hard coal 0.4 GW is a small dark stack barely smoking at the far left edge. The sky is completely overcast with a thick blanket of grey-white clouds, but along the lower western horizon a band of dusk orange-red glow breaks through, casting warm amber light across the undersides of the clouds and the landscape below — the sun is near setting at 17:00 Berlin time in May, with rapidly fading light. The temperature is a pleasant 20.9°C; lush late-spring vegetation, bright green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy. The atmosphere feels moderately heavy and close, with a slightly oppressive humidity suggested by the thick cloud deck, evoking the 71 EUR/MWh price tension. Style: 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 impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.