Solar dominates at 25 GW with coal and gas backstopping a 54.4 GW spring evening demand under full cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 47%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
75%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.0 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
-1.0 GW
Net import
91.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 402.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
178
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.0 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, catching diffuse light; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising against the sky; wind onshore 6.0 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-steel towers across a mid-ground ridge, blades turning slowly in light wind; biomass 4.3 GW is represented by a timber-clad combined heat and power facility with a tall cylindrical smokestack and stacked woodchip piles beside it, positioned left of centre; natural gas 3.7 GW shows as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular buildings, centre-left; hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts feeding from a dark coal stockpile, adjacent to the lignite plant; wind offshore 3.2 GW is visible as a distant row of white turbines on the far horizon line beyond the solar fields; hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock on a river in the lower foreground. Time of day is 17:00 Berlin dusk: the sky is fully overcast with thick stratiform clouds, yet the lower western horizon glows with a diffuse orange-red band of fading sunlight, upper sky darkening to slate grey. Temperature 16.9°C: spring-green grass, budding deciduous trees with fresh pale leaves, wildflowers dotting the meadows. Light wind barely stirs the grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price—clouds press low, air feels dense, a brooding industrial weight over the landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork visible in the clouds and steam plumes, deep atmospheric perspective from foreground river to distant offshore turbines, warm-to-cool colour transitions from the orange horizon through grey-blue overcast, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower concrete texture, and coal conveyor mechanism. No text, no labels.