Solar dominates at 21.2 GW under clear skies, supported by 10.4 GW wind and 7.0 GW brown coal on a cold March morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
76%
Renewable share
10.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.2 GW
Solar
48.7 GW
Total generation
+1.8 GW
Net export
41.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 55.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.2 GW dominates the right half and centre-right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across a gently rolling late-winter landscape, angled south and glinting under bright morning sunlight. Brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the cold air, flanked by conveyor belts feeding a lignite power station. Wind onshore 9.3 GW appears as two dozen three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed along ridgelines in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is a small group of turbines visible far on the horizon at the left edge, standing in a sliver of grey-blue sea. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a single squat smokestack and timber storage yard in the mid-ground between the solar fields and the coal complex. Natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a tall single exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, situated just behind the biomass plant. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional coal plant with a single rectangular chimney emitting a thin grey wisp, tucked beside the brown coal towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley at the far right edge. The sky is completely clear, zero clouds, a pale winter-blue dome with the sun low in the east casting long golden-orange shadows across frost-dusted fields; bare deciduous trees and patches of dormant brown grass indicate late winter at 2.4 °C. The atmosphere is crisp and calm with excellent visibility. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.