Solar and wind lead at 22.5 GW combined, but 13.7 GW net imports needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 27%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
68%
Renewable share
11.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.2 GW
Solar
40.9 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
125.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 194.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 11.2 GW occupies the right foreground as a vast field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey light; wind onshore 7.1 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green hills, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears in the far background right as a row of turbines rising from a hazy sea horizon; brown coal 6.0 GW dominates the left third as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with an adjacent lignite conveyor belt and open-pit edge visible; natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of cylindrical digesters and a small smokestack with pale exhaust near the coal plant; hard coal 2.8 GW is rendered as a dark angular power station with a single rectangular chimney and coal stockpile beside a canal; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley at far left. The sky is 93% overcast — a thick blanket of stratocumulus in slate grey and pewter tones — with only a narrow band of deep amber-orange twilight glow along the lower western horizon, as it is 18:00 dusk in May. The upper sky is darkening to steel blue. The landscape is lush late-spring green, temperature around 13°C suggesting cool damp air with faint mist hugging low ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 125 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty ceiling of cloud pressing down on the industrial panorama. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV cell's grid pattern. No text, no labels.