Strong solar at 25.6 GW leads generation, but near-zero wind forces 9.0 GW of fossil thermal dispatch on a calm May morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 60%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
79%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.6 GW
Solar
42.4 GW
Total generation
-0.7 GW
Net import
77.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 116.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
149
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.6 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green spring farmland, angled toward a brilliant morning sun in a perfectly cloudless pale-blue sky. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising against the sky, adjacent to a lignite conveyor belt and ash-grey open-pit mine edge. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and modest exhaust stacks emitting thin pale vapour, positioned left of centre behind the solar fields. Natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall steel exhaust stack and a smaller cooling unit, set between the biomass facility and the coal complex. Hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and a dark conveyor system, tucked beside the brown coal installation. Wind onshore 1.0 GW and wind offshore 1.0 GW are represented by a sparse row of three-blade turbines on distant hilltops at the far right, their rotors virtually motionless in the still air. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible in a gentle stream in the foreground. Time of day is 8:00 AM in late May: full morning daylight, sun low-to-moderate in the east casting long golden shadows across the landscape, fresh spring-green deciduous trees with full canopy, wildflowers in meadow grasses. The atmosphere carries a faint heaviness — a subtle warm haze near the thermal plants suggesting moderate energy prices and tight supply. Style: 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.