Wind and solar lead at 27 GW combined, but 11 GW net imports needed as morning demand outpaces domestic supply.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 29%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
72%
Renewable share
14.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.0 GW
Solar
45.1 GW
Total generation
-11.0 GW
Net import
131.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 40.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
192
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across rolling green hills, blades turning gently in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.7 GW appears on the far right horizon as a distant cluster of turbines standing in a sliver of grey-blue sea. Solar 13.0 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward the east, catching the first pale light of early morning. Brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left portion as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting heavy white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at their base. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.0 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas station, with a single rectangular boiler house and a modest chimney trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and low exhaust pipes on the mid-left. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small dam with spillway nestled in a valley in the far background. The sky is dawn at 07:00 Berlin time: deep blue-grey overhead transitioning to a pale luminous band of pre-sunrise light along the eastern horizon, no direct sun disc visible yet, the landscape bathed in cool diffuse blue-grey light. Cloud cover is zero percent so the sky is perfectly clear, stars still faintly visible at the zenith. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the high electricity price—a faint haze clings to the thermal plants. Vegetation is lush late-May green, with wildflowers in meadows beneath the turbines and fresh deciduous foliage on scattered trees. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky gradients, yet every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy—turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower concrete ribbing, CCGT heat recovery steam generators. No text, no labels.