Strong solar at 32 GW leads generation, but near-zero wind forces heavy thermal dispatch and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.2 GW
Solar
58.2 GW
Total generation
-4.7 GW
Net import
97.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 118.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
194
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across a gently rolling landscape, catching brilliant morning sunlight from the east; brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the clear sky; natural gas 5.0 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thinner steam columns positioned centre-left; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and modest smokestack near centre; hard coal 3.6 GW shows as a single large coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and broad chimney, left of centre; wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on the far horizon where flat land meets a sliver of grey sea; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam with spillway visible in a forested valley at far right. TIME: full morning daylight at 09:00 in early April, sun low in the east casting long golden shadows across the PV arrays; sky perfectly cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with an oppressive haze near the horizon suggesting high electricity prices — a faint yellowish-brown atmospheric weight pressing down. WEATHER: bare early-spring trees with just the first tiny buds, frost still visible on grass in shaded areas reflecting the 2.9 °C temperature; no wind motion in vegetation or flags. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower and smokestack; the scene balanced between the luminous optimism of solar fields in morning light and the brooding weight of fossil thermal plants wreathed in steam; no text, no labels.