Solar leads at 26.4 GW under clear skies, but tight supply-demand balance and thermal backfill push prices above 123 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 56%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 10%
72%
Renewable share
2.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.4 GW
Solar
47.3 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
123.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 141.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
185
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.4 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the right half and centre-right of the composition, angled south, gleaming under a bright cloudless morning sky; brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into still air; natural gas 5.4 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.8 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single squat smokestack and a coal conveyor belt; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip storage dome and a modest chimney near the left foreground; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a gentle valley at the far left edge; wind onshore 1.5 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on distant rolling hills at the far right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 0.5 GW is represented by two tiny turbines visible on a hazy horizon line. The morning light at 08:00 in late May casts long golden shadows from the east, the sun low but fully above the horizon, illuminating fresh green deciduous foliage and spring meadow grasses at 10°C — cool morning atmosphere with faint ground mist in hollows. The sky feels heavy and oppressive despite its clarity, rendered with a subtle brassy, pressurized quality to reflect the high electricity price — a taut, almost metallic warmth suffusing the atmosphere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.