Solar provides nearly 39 GW at midday while brown coal and gas supply residual baseload under partly cloudy skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
61.8 GW
Total generation
-0.2 GW
Net import
73.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
78.0% / 559.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.9 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon PV panels covering rolling green hills and farmland across the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames catching diffuse midday light. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, surrounded by conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a pair of medium-scale wood-chip power stations with stockpiled fuel and modest chimneys, situated just right of the coal complex. Natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, positioned in the left-centre foreground. Hard coal 3.5 GW shows as a single large power station with a tall brick chimney and coal bunkers adjacent to the gas plant. Wind onshore 2.6 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge in the centre background, blades turning slowly. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines visible on a hazy horizon far in the distance. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam and spillway set into a gentle river valley at the right foreground edge. The sky is midday bright but heavily filtered through 78% cloud cover — a high white-grey overcast with occasional breaks letting shafts of direct sunlight (559 W/m²) illuminate patches of the solar fields in warm gold. Spring vegetation: fresh green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, temperature around 16°C suggesting comfortable mild air. Light breeze barely moves the grass. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy, reflecting moderate electricity prices — not oppressive, but dense and layered. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy on all energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.