Solar leads at 18.2 GW but heavy thermal dispatch and 7.3 GW net imports cover a 57.9 GW demand peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 36%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
57%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.2 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
-7.3 GW
Net import
121.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
83% / 438.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
292
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled toward a partly obscured afternoon sun; brown coal 9.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; natural gas 8.3 GW appears centre-left as a modern combined-cycle gas turbine facility with two tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze; hard coal 4.3 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single squat chimney and coal conveyor; wind onshore 4.7 GW is rendered as a scattered line of fifteen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in moderate wind; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a wood-clad industrial plant with a short stack and wood-chip storage dome near the village edge; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a tree-lined river in the middle distance; wind offshore 0.4 GW is faintly suggested as tiny turbine silhouettes on a hazy far horizon. The sky is 83% overcast with heavy grey-white stratocumulus, but broken gaps let shafts of warm golden-white April sunlight pour through at a moderately low 16:00 angle, casting long dramatic shadows across the panel fields and illuminating the cooling tower steam from below. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting a high electricity price — the clouds press low and the air has a dense, humid quality. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green leaf buds on deciduous trees, emerald pastures, some rapeseed beginning to yellow. Temperature is mild at 14°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, saturated colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with misty depth, dramatic chiaroscuro where sunbeams pierce the cloud layer, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every rivet on the cooling towers. The composition has the grandeur of a Romantic panorama yet documents the industrial energy landscape with documentary precision. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.