Solar provides 46.4 GW at midday but near-zero wind forces 10.1 GW of thermal generation and 4.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 73%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 7%
84%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.4 GW
Solar
63.6 GW
Total generation
-4.5 GW
Net import
57.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
62% / 314.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
111
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling fields occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, angled toward a partially veiled sun; brown coal 4.2 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into hazy air; biomass 4.2 GW sits behind the solar fields as mid-sized industrial plants with wood-chip storage yards and modest exhaust stacks; natural gas 3.0 GW is rendered as compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer near the left-centre; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a dark-hulled power station with conveyor belts and a tall square chimney beside a coal stockpile; hydro 1.6 GW is visible as a concrete dam with spillway in a river valley in the far background right; wind onshore 0.7 GW shows as two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right edge. The time is 11:00 AM in mid-April: full daytime lighting but softened and slightly diffused by 62% cloud cover—a bright but hazy sky with patches of blue between grey-white cumulus clouds, sunlight casting gentle shadows. The air is still, no motion in grasses or tree branches, reflecting the near-calm wind. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green leaves on birch and linden trees, wildflowers beginning in meadow edges, 16°C warmth giving a mild luminous quality. The atmosphere carries a faintly oppressive industrial haze near the thermal plants suggesting the moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for each energy technology: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower concrete texture, conveyor gantries. The scene feels like a masterwork Romantic industrial landscape. No text, no labels.