Solar leads at 24 GW but low wind forces heavy coal and gas dispatch, pushing prices near 100 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.0 GW
Solar
50.3 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
99.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 430.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
263
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling spring farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse milky light. Brown coal 9.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast. Natural gas 5.3 GW appears in the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas units as a dark brick-and-steel plant with a single large chimney and conveyor belt structure. Biomass 4.1 GW is visible as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded wooden-chip silo and modest smokestack near the centre. Wind onshore 1.4 GW is represented by just two or three distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a thin strip of grey North Sea horizon at the far left with a couple of tiny offshore turbine silhouettes. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled in low hills at the right edge. The sky is fully overcast—a continuous blanket of pale grey-white cloud—yet strongly luminous, the afternoon daylight at 16:00 in April bright and even, casting soft shadowless light across the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy, consistent with a high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, budding trees, wildflowers beginning. Temperature is mild, 16–17 °C. The air is nearly still, no motion in grass or branches. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato haze—combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct nacelle shapes, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower geometry, CCGT turbine housings. The scene reads as a grand industrial pastoral, monumental yet melancholic. No text, no labels.