Strong solar (22.3 GW) leads renewables but persistent coal and gas fill a 30.5 GW residual load, requiring 6.2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 42%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
52.8 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
115.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49% / 430.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
243
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.3 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as a vast field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under an April afternoon sun partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift across the sky, beside open-pit lignite conveyors and boiler houses. Natural gas 6.9 GW sits centre-left as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, heat shimmer rising from their outlets. Hard coal 4.1 GW appears behind the gas plant as a traditional coal-fired station with a tall chimney and coal bunker. Wind onshore 5.5 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle green hills in the mid-distance left of centre, rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 0.6 GW appears as a tiny cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint blue-grey strip of sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a wood-chip-fed combined heat and power plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard in the centre-right middle ground. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far right. The sky is bright afternoon daylight at 15:00, half blue and half scattered white-grey clouds, with warm spring sunshine casting defined shadows; the atmosphere feels heavy and slightly hazy suggesting high electricity prices — a faint yellowish industrial pall in the air. The landscape is early-spring central German: fresh pale-green deciduous trees just leafing out, temperature around 13°C conveyed by people in light jackets near the solar field. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.