Solar leads at 11.3 GW with wind at 7.6 GW, but 14.6 GW net imports are needed to meet 49.5 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 32%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
70%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.3 GW
Solar
34.9 GW
Total generation
-14.5 GW
Net import
126.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 79.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
212
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 11.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light under total overcast; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the heavy cloud ceiling, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite; wind onshore 5.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the centre-left middle distance, rotors turning gently in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested by a cluster of smaller turbines visible far on the horizon where a grey sea meets grey sky at the far left; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall cylindrical stack and wood-chip storage dome in the centre; natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and clean metal housing to the right of the biomass plant; hard coal 2.0 GW shows as a smaller power station with a square chimney emitting faint dark exhaust behind the cooling towers; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley in the far right background. Time is 18:00 in May — dusk is beginning: the sky is entirely overcast with a heavy, oppressive blanket of stratiform cloud at 126 EUR/MWh price, a fading orange-red glow barely visible along the lowest sliver of the western horizon, the upper sky darkening to slate grey. Temperature is cool at 10.7°C; spring vegetation is fresh green but muted under the flat light — young leaves on birch and beech trees, green grass with scattered wildflowers. The atmosphere is dense, humid, heavy — conveying the strain of high prices and import dependency. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich, sombre colour palette of greys, steel blues, muted greens and warm industrial oranges; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with industrial haze; meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, PV panel frames, cooling tower parabolic curves, and CCGT stacks. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.