Solar leads at 25.4 GW under clear skies, but low wind and 12 GW net imports drive prices to 122 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 54%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
76%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.4 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
-12.0 GW
Net import
122.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 99.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
174
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 25.4 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, angled south, glinting under a clear morning sun low in the eastern sky. Brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into still air. Hard coal 2.8 GW appears just right of the brown coal complex as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single tall smokestack. Natural gas 3.0 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with sleek exhaust stacks and a modest steam plume, positioned centre-left. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with rounded digesters and a wood-chip storage dome in the left middle ground. Wind onshore 2.4 GW is shown as a small group of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the far centre background, rotors barely turning in the calm air. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a line of distant turbines on a hazy horizon far left. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest dam spillway glimpsed in a valley at far right. The sky is perfectly clear, deep blue above fading to warm golden-white near the low eastern sun, casting long westward shadows across the landscape. Late-May vegetation is lush — bright green meadows, leafy deciduous trees, wildflowers. Despite the beautiful morning, the atmosphere carries a subtle heaviness — a faint industrial haze from the thermal plants lends a slightly oppressive, warm tonality to the air, reflecting the high electricity price. The scene is rendered as a 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 aerial perspective receding into layered distances — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.