Solar leads at 13.2 GW but large net imports of 19.4 GW and coal baseload drive a high morning price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 37%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
67%
Renewable share
5.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.2 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-19.4 GW
Net import
141.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
55.0% / 21.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
236
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 13.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills, catching weak diffuse light under a hazy sky; brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising slowly into still air; hard coal 3.1 GW appears as a gritty coal-fired plant with a tall rectangular stack and conveyor belts just behind the cooling towers; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized wood-clad combined heat and power plants with modest chimneys emitting thin wisps of pale smoke, positioned centre-left; natural gas 2.9 GW sits centre as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer; wind onshore 3.8 GW appears as a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the calm; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a far northern horizon line; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a valley bottom, lower right. TIME AND LIGHT: early dawn at 07:00 in late May — the sky is pale blue-grey with the sun just below or at the horizon, casting no direct beams; a soft, cool, pre-sunrise luminosity fills the scene from the east; 55% cloud cover rendered as scattered alto-cumulus in muted pearl and slate tones, creating a heavy, slightly oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The air is still, temperature cool at 11.5°C, spring vegetation lush — bright green grass, blossoming hawthorn hedgerows, wildflowers. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, Romantic chiaroscuro between the dark industrial foreground and the luminous eastern sky. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT turbine housings. No text, no labels.