Solar leads at 25.1 GW with thermal plants and 8.2 GW net imports covering a tight spring-morning demand of 62.7 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 46%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
71%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.1 GW
Solar
54.5 GW
Total generation
-8.3 GW
Net import
97.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49% / 80.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
193
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.1 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled south and catching mid-morning light; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 6.3 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a square chimney stack beside a dark fuel stockpile; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial plant with a modest smokestack and stacked woodchip storage; wind onshore 6.1 GW shows as a line of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in the light breeze; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete powerhouse at a river in the foreground. Time is 09:00 in April: full daylight, sun at a moderate elevation in the east casting long but bright shadows, sky roughly half covered with layered alto-cumulus clouds allowing shafts of direct sunlight through gaps, overall light cool-toned and crisp. Temperature 5.3 °C: early spring vegetation, bare branches with just-emerging green buds on deciduous trees, pale green grass, patches of frost lingering in shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—a faint industrial haze sits along the horizon, muting distant colours. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, luminous cloud studies reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice pylons carrying high-voltage lines, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.