Solar at 22.5 GW leads a 77.9% renewable mix on a cloudless spring morning with light winds.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 49%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.5 GW
Solar
45.8 GW
Total generation
+0.4 GW
Net export
53.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 148.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
152
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.5 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled toward a low morning sun; brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the far left as three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into still air, adjacent to a conveyor-fed lignite bunker; wind onshore 4.9 GW appears as a line of seven three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a ridgeline in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a cluster of distant turbines visible on a hazy northern horizon; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber yard and single smokestack emitting thin grey exhaust, positioned between the cooling towers and the solar fields; natural gas 3.7 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a tall single exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit, placed in the left-centre; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single square stack behind the gas plant; hydro 1.2 GW is a modest dam and spillway visible in a valley on the far right. TIME AND LIGHT: 08:00 in mid-May, full daylight with the sun low in the east casting long golden shadows across the landscape, completely clear blue sky with zero cloud cover, cool spring atmosphere with a slight ground mist in low valleys. Vegetation is fresh spring green — beech and birch in young leaf, meadows with wildflowers, fields of young rapeseed. The air is still and crisp. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, luminous colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth achieved through careful aerial perspective, warm golden foreground light contrasting with cooler blue-grey distances. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The overall mood is serene and balanced — a pastoral industrial landscape bathed in spring light. No text, no labels, no human figures prominently featured.