Strong solar and moderate wind cover 80% renewables, but 17.6 GW net imports bridge a large consumption gap at evening peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
80%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.7 GW
Solar
40.7 GW
Total generation
-17.6 GW
Net import
134.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 393.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
133
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across golden-green farmland, their aluminium frames catching warm light; wind onshore 7.3 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills in the centre-right, blades barely turning in light air; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a hazy river valley; biomass 3.8 GW sits in the centre as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and timber yard; natural gas 3.7 GW appears as a pair of CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the sky; hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single stack and coal conveyor beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway nestled in a wooded fold of terrain at the far left. Time is 18:00 in late May — the sun is still well above the horizon but descending in the west, casting long amber-gold light across the entire panorama; sky is completely clear, deep blue overhead fading to warm amber-orange near the low sun. Temperature is nearly 30°C — lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, dry golden grass in foreground, heat haze shimmering above asphalt roads. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting a high electricity price: the air is thick, saturated with warmth, a faint copper-bronze tint to the light. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, layered atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant elements. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower shells with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat distortion. The composition reads as a grand industrial panorama, a masterwork painting of a working landscape under the golden weight of a hot evening. No text, no labels.