Massive solar output of 38.5 GW dominates but low wind and steady thermal generation cover a 2.6 GW net import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 68%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
80%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.5 GW
Solar
57.1 GW
Total generation
-2.6 GW
Net import
87.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 280.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.5 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills, glinting intensely under a blazing, cloudless late-morning sky. Brown coal 4.1 GW appears at the left as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the blue. Natural gas 4.7 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.4 GW occupies a smaller cluster behind, identifiable by a blocky power station with a single large smokestack trailing pale grey exhaust. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with rounded digesters and a modest stack, set among trees at right-centre. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway cut into a wooded hillside at the far right. Wind onshore 1.1 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. The sky is completely clear, brilliant blue, with strong direct sunlight casting sharp defined shadows; the atmosphere feels subtly heavy and warm despite the brightness, hinting at market tension—a faint amber-gold haze near the horizon adds weight. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, blooming canola fields in yellow patches, deciduous trees in full young leaf. Temperature 12.8 °C gives a crisp spring feel. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment—but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower curve, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.