Wind and fading solar dominate at 76% renewables, with coal and gas bridging a 2.2 GW net import gap at evening ramp.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 26%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
20.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.4 GW
Solar
51.7 GW
Total generation
-2.2 GW
Net import
104.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
14% / 303.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
164
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green spring hills; solar 13.4 GW fills the center-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels catching the last low-angle orange sunlight; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears in the far background as a line of turbines on a hazy sea horizon; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes against the darkening sky; natural gas 4.7 GW sits center-left as two compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rounded dome digester and small chimney with faint vapour; hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller conventional power station to the far left with a single rectangular cooling tower and coal conveyors; hydro 1.3 GW is represented by a small dam and spillway set into a wooded valley at the far left edge. Time is 18:00 Berlin late April dusk: the sun is very low on the western horizon casting a deep orange-red glow along the lower sky, the upper sky transitioning from warm amber to steel blue-grey, long dramatic shadows stretch eastward across the landscape. Spring foliage: fresh bright-green deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadows, 15°C mild air. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the beauty—a sense of economic tension from high electricity prices conveyed through thick, warm-toned haze and dense industrial steam mingling with the sunset glow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant cooling towers and offshore turbines. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV panel gridlines, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT heat recovery units. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.