Solar ramps to 11.8 GW under clear skies as brown coal and wind hold the balance during a cool May dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 30%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 16%
67%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.8 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-3.0 GW
Net import
80.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
227
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 11.8 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across a gently rolling plain, catching the first pale pre-dawn light on their blue-black surfaces. Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the cold still air. Wind onshore 6.9 GW appears as a long line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers arrayed across a ridge in the centre-left, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Natural gas 4.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks and low rectangular turbine halls positioned centre-right, thin exhaust visible. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short smokestack and timber storage yard near the centre. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by distant turbines visible on a far horizon line beyond a river. Hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller power station with a single large chimney and coal conveyor belts at far left. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and spillway in the lower foreground with water catching dim light. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight yet, the eastern horizon showing only the faintest band of cold lavender and steel-blue luminescence — no warm tones. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a subtle haze hanging low over the industrial structures reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is cold for May: frost edges on grass, breath-like mist near ground level, bare-branched late-budding trees with only minimal pale green foliage. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy — rich muted colour palette of slate blues, cool greys, and subtle earth tones, visible confident brushwork, dramatic compositional depth from foreground dam through mid-ground solar fields and gas plant to background cooling towers and wind turbines on the ridge. No text, no labels.