Solar at 28.3 GW leads 89% renewable generation; calm winds and 7.1 GW net imports balance evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.3 GW
Solar
40.5 GW
Total generation
-7.0 GW
Net import
44.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 319.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.3 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the right two-thirds of the canvas, angled south, reflecting a diffuse milky light. Brown coal 2.1 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin grey-white steam plumes rising lazily. Biomass 4.0 GW occupies the left-centre as a cluster of modest industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small chimneys trailing faint heat shimmer. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits beside the biomass as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack venting translucent heat. Wind onshore 1.8 GW is rendered as a short row of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a low ridge behind the solar fields, blades barely turning in negligible wind. Wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as distant turbines on the far horizon, tiny and still. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and low concrete run-of-river station in the middle ground. Hard coal 0.4 GW appears as a single dark-bricked power station with a thin wisp from its chimney, partially obscured behind trees at the far left edge. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick blanket of warm grey-white stratocumulus, but the lower western horizon glows intensely with orange-red dusk light at 17:00 Berlin time, casting long amber shadows across the landscape and warming the upper surfaces of the PV panels. The atmosphere is hazy and warm, suggesting 28 °C late-May heat — lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grasses, wildflowers. The mood is moderately weighted, not oppressive but not airy, reflecting a mid-range electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth receding into haze, luminous colour contrasts between warm dusk tones and cool industrial greys, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.