Solar leads at 21.7 GW but near-zero wind forces heavy fossil dispatch and 10.7 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 48%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
65%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.7 GW
Solar
44.8 GW
Total generation
-10.7 GW
Net import
126.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
72% / 62.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
234
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland toward the horizon; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 6.6 GW appears just left of centre as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a rectangular boiler house and single squat cooling tower; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip plant with a low rounded dome and gentle pale smoke; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a river in the middle distance; wind onshore 1.5 GW is visible as a handful of tall three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; wind offshore 0.1 GW is a single tiny turbine silhouette on the distant hazy horizon line. The time is 08:00 in late April: full morning daylight but muted and diffuse, filtered through a heavy 72% overcast layer of grey-white stratocumulus — no direct sun visible, yet the sky is bright with a cool silvery luminosity. The air temperature is a cold 3.3°C: bare brown-grey early-spring trees with only the faintest green buds, patches of frost lingering on shadowed grass, breath-like vapour rising from the river. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, conveying the high electricity price — a dense, leaden quality to the clouds pressing low over the industrial landscape. Rendered as a 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, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro contrast between the pale sky and dark industrial silhouettes. Each energy technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic concrete shell geometry, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels, no human figures.