Solar dominates at 25.1 GW with moderate wind; a 5.1 GW net import covers the consumption gap at 77.3 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 52%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.1 GW
Solar
48.2 GW
Total generation
-5.1 GW
Net import
77.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 317.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.1 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green spring meadows, angled south, catching diffused and partial direct sunlight through broken cloud; wind onshore 7.1 GW appears as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers across the mid-ground left, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 3.9 GW is glimpsed as a cluster of monopile offshore turbines on a distant grey-blue horizon line at the far left; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage yard at the left-centre foreground; brown coal 3.5 GW appears as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising behind a conveyor-fed lignite bunker in the far left background; natural gas 2.2 GW is shown as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass facility; hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal stockpile, partially obscured behind the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW is represented by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a modest river flowing through the lower foreground. TIME AND LIGHT: 16:00 mid-afternoon in late spring, full daylight but with 73% cloud cover — a layered sky of silver-grey cumulus with dramatic breaks where golden afternoon sun pours through in visible god-rays, illuminating patches of the solar fields below. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy, reflecting the 77.3 EUR/MWh price — not stormy, but weighty, a warm pewter sky pressing down. VEGETATION: fresh mid-May green on deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, grass lush and bright. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro where sunbeams break through cloud cover, warm golden-green palette in the illuminated foreground contrasting with cool blue-grey industrial distances. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles with anemometers, PV panel grid lines, cooling tower parabolic curvature, conveyor belt structures. The composition conveys the coexistence of industrial infrastructure and pastoral spring landscape as a sublime panorama. No text, no labels, no people.