Solar and wind lead at 85% renewable share, but 10.8 GW net imports cover the evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 44%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 9%
85%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.2 GW
Solar
37.1 GW
Total generation
-10.8 GW
Net import
107.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.4°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
26.0% / 390.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
105
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 16.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, angled toward a low western sun; wind onshore 9.0 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in light breeze; biomass 3.9 GW appears centre-left as a cluster of modest industrial plants with wood-chip storage domes and thin exhaust columns; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes against the sky; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley in the left middle-ground; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 0.4 GW is a small dark stack barely visible behind the lignite complex; wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a few turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in late May — the sun sits low in the west, casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, the upper sky transitioning from warm blue to pale amber near the horizon, with only 26% cloud cover as scattered alto-cumulus clouds lit pink and gold from below. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and warm, suggesting the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze hangs over the left side where the coal plants stand. Lush late-spring vegetation covers hillsides in deep green, wildflowers dot meadow edges, and mature deciduous trees are in full leaf. High-voltage transmission lines on steel pylons cross the middle distance, connecting the diverse sources. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto colour, visible directional brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into hazy blue-green distances — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and transformer yard. No text, no labels.