Solar leads at 30 GW but near-zero wind forces 16 GW of fossil generation and 8.5 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 55%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
70%
Renewable share
2.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.0 GW
Solar
54.4 GW
Total generation
-8.6 GW
Net import
101.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
83% / 72.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
202
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.0 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretch across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a diffuse, overcast daylight. Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the heavy cloud deck. Natural gas 6.2 GW appears just left of centre as two modern CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks and slender vapour trails. Hard coal 3.8 GW sits between the brown coal and gas plants as a large industrial block with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and a single wide chimney emitting faint haze. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a group of medium-sized wood-fired CHP plants with timber-yard log piles and modest smokestacks in the centre-left middle ground. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley in the distant left background. Wind onshore 1.0 GW and wind offshore 1.2 GW are represented by only a handful of three-blade turbines on a far ridge and a barely visible offshore cluster on the horizon, their rotors nearly motionless. The sky is heavily overcast at 83% cloud cover — a thick, layered blanket of grey stratus clouds — but it is full mid-morning daylight at 09:00, with soft diffuse illumination casting no sharp shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees at 10.5°C. The air is still, no movement in foliage or flags. Rolling central German terrain with gentle hills. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour palette of slate greys, moss greens, and industrial ochres — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.