Solar dominates at 24.1 GW in late afternoon; light winds and low prices define a calm, import-dependent grid.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 61%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.1 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-2.1 GW
Net import
11.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 313.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
128
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.1 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the canvas, angled toward fading western light; brown coal 4.0 GW appears as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising in the left background; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biomass plants with wood-chip conveyors and modest stacks emitting thin white smoke in the left-centre; wind onshore 2.0 GW shown as a small group of three-blade turbines on distant rolling hills, blades barely turning; wind offshore 0.7 GW as faint turbines on a far horizon line; natural gas 2.0 GW depicted as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 1.0 GW as a smaller conventional coal plant with a single square stack behind the biomass facility; hydro 1.2 GW as a modest dam and spillway nestled in the far left valley. Time is 17:00 in late April — dusk approaching, the sky fully overcast with thick grey-white stratus clouds, but a warm orange-amber glow breaking through at the low western horizon, casting long golden light across the solar panels and gilding the cooling tower steam. The atmosphere is calm, serene, with almost no wind motion in the trees — spring foliage in fresh bright green on birch and linden trees framing the foreground. Gentle rolling central German landscape with fields of rapeseed in yellow bloom. The low price and abundant renewables are reflected in a tranquil, open, unhurried mood. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic yet contemplative mood — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every energy technology depicted. No text, no labels.