Solar leads at 19.8 GW but weak wind forces heavy thermal dispatch and 13 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 39%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
58%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.8 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
110.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
69% / 59.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
286
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into an overcast sky; natural gas 7.9 GW occupies the left-centre as two modern CCGT power stations with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.7 GW appears behind them as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; solar 19.8 GW fills the entire right half and foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled southward on metal racks, stretching across gently rolling farmland with early spring green grass and budding trees; wind onshore 2.4 GW is represented by a sparse handful of three-blade turbines on lattice towers in the far centre-right, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a distant line of offshore turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.4 GW sits as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a rounded silo and small chimney on the centre-right; hydro 1.5 GW is shown as a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water at the far right edge. The time is mid-morning: full daylight but muted, with a 69% overcast sky filtering the sun into a diffuse bright haze — some blue patches visible but most of the sky a flat silvery grey. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the clouds press low and the air seems dense. Temperature around 10°C: early spring, cool tones, dew still on the PV panel glass, vegetation pale green and tentative. A few high-voltage transmission pylons with thick cable bundles cross the midground, suggesting the heavy import flows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is engineered with meticulous technical accuracy. No text, no labels.