Solar dominates at 18.3 GW but 11.9 GW net imports needed as evening demand outstrips domestic generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 56%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.3 GW
Solar
32.9 GW
Total generation
-11.9 GW
Net import
118.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49.0% / 374.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.3 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green hills, catching warm orange-gold light; brown coal 2.6 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.8 GW sits left-of-centre as a cluster of wood-clad biomass power stations with modest chimneys and conveyor belts feeding fuel hoppers; wind onshore 2.9 GW occupies the mid-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is visible in the distant background as a small row of turbines on the hazy horizon suggesting a far-off North Sea coast; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 0.8 GW is a small, gritty coal-fired station with a single squat smokestack near the brown coal towers; hydro 1.6 GW is rendered as a stone-faced dam with spillway in a forested valley at the far right edge. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in late May — the sun is low in the west, casting a rich amber-orange glow across the lower third of the sky, with the upper sky deepening to warm blue-violet. Scattered cumulus clouds at roughly half coverage catch dramatic orange and pink light on their undersides. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a slight haze suggesting the high 118.8 EUR/MWh price tension — humid, warm summer air at 27.4°C with lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in the meadows, and long shadows stretching eastward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's ribbed concrete structure — a grand industrial pastoral masterwork. No text, no labels.