Solar at 37.8 GW leads a renewables-heavy morning with brown coal and gas providing residual baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.8 GW
Solar
62.6 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
71.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
53.0% / 250.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green late-May farmland under a partly cloudy sky; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the atmosphere; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on the distant northern horizon, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind onshore 2.5 GW is shown as a small group of lattice-tower turbines on a nearby ridge; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-yard and single smokestack amid trees in the left middle ground; natural gas 3.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a gleaming exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the coal plant; hydro 1.8 GW is depicted as a concrete dam with spillway on a wooded river in the left foreground; hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller power station with a single rectangular cooling tower beside the lignite complex. Full mid-morning daylight at 09:00, bright but softened by 53% cloud cover — a mix of cumulus clouds and blue sky patches with direct sun visible, casting defined but not harsh shadows. Temperature 14.9°C: lush spring-green foliage, wildflowers in meadows, fresh atmosphere. Moderate day-ahead price reflected in a slightly hazy, warm atmosphere without oppression. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic curves, steam condensation physics. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent. Panoramic wide-angle composition.