Solar leads at 13.4 GW but fading; brown coal and gas fill the gap as 10.3 GW of imports cover evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 39%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.4 GW
Solar
34.7 GW
Total generation
-10.3 GW
Net import
113.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 130.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
242
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 13.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle spring hills, their surfaces reflecting pale, diffuse grey light; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky; biomass 4.6 GW appears behind the cooling towers as a series of mid-sized industrial buildings with corrugated metal facades, wood-chip storage silos, and short exhaust stacks trailing thin wisps of smoke; natural gas 3.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units in the centre-left with slender single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; wind onshore 2.6 GW shows as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on the distant ridgeline, their rotors barely turning in the still air; hard coal 2.0 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall chimney and conveyor belts feeding dark coal; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on a far horizon above a barely visible strip of sea; hydro 1.5 GW is a concrete dam visible in a valley cut between the hills. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered stratus clouds in tones of slate and pewter, creating an oppressive, high-price atmosphere. The time is dusk at 18:00 in late April: a fading orange-red glow smoulders along the lowest sliver of the western horizon, while the sky above transitions rapidly from muted amber to deepening blue-grey. Spring vegetation covers the hills in fresh bright green with scattered wildflowers, trees in early leaf, temperature mild at 14.7°C. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the hazy distance, suggesting cross-border power flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance — yet with meticulous technical accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete ribs. No text, no labels.