Wind dominates at 24.1 GW but heavy overcast and fading solar drive thermal dispatch and 6.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 21%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
76%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.9 GW
Solar
53.2 GW
Total generation
-6.8 GW
Net import
114.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
169
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea; solar 10.9 GW is rendered as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only diffuse grey light under near-total overcast; brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at the base; hard coal 2.6 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and one smaller cooling tower; natural gas 3.4 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and silver heat-recovery units positioned between the coal plant and the wind turbines; biomass 4.2 GW is depicted as a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest smokestack and stacked timber nearby in the centre-left mid-ground; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the valley floor. Time of day is 18:00 in May — dusk lighting with a fading orange-red glow confined to the lower horizon on the left, the sky above darkening to slate grey and deep blue-grey, heavy 94% cloud cover forming a thick oppressive blanket suggesting the high electricity price; temperature is a cool 10°C with fresh spring-green vegetation on hillsides but no blossoms, grass bending in 19 km/h wind; the atmosphere is moody and weighty. 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 and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's grid lines — a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.