Solar at 25.9 GW and wind at 11.0 GW drive a 90% renewable grid at balanced evening load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 55%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
62.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
19.0% / 472.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.9 GW dominates the centre and right as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their aluminium frames catching warm orange-gold late-afternoon light. Wind onshore 10.0 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in a gentle breeze. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of sea. Biomass 3.8 GW occupies the left-centre as a group of modest wood-chip-fired power stations with squat chimneys trailing thin white exhaust. Brown coal 3.0 GW sits in the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting billowing steam plumes, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a stone dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at the far left. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and small vapour trail, positioned between the coal towers and the biomass station. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a barely visible older smokestack behind the gas plant, nearly dormant. The sky is a dusk scene at 17:00 in late May: the sun hangs low in the west, casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, with the upper sky transitioning from warm pale blue to hints of deeper blue above. Cloud cover is minimal at 19%, with a few wispy cirrus clouds catching pink and gold. Lush late-spring vegetation — bright green wheat fields, blooming rapeseed borders, leafy deciduous trees — reflects the 24.7°C warmth. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, not oppressive. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous technical accuracy in rendering each energy technology: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grids, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, conveyor structures. The scene feels like a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.