Solar leads at 21.4 GW under clear skies, but 10.3 GW net imports are needed to meet 60.3 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
72%
Renewable share
8.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.4 GW
Solar
50.0 GW
Total generation
-10.3 GW
Net import
112.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 93.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
198
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-black surfaces gleaming in bright morning sunlight; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers visible; wind onshore 8.2 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a ridge in the centre-left background, blades turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 4.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a pair of tall exhaust stacks and heat recovery units in the centre; hard coal 3.4 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and rectangular boiler house just behind the gas plant; biomass 4.5 GW is depicted as a wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and timber storage yard at the far left edge; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam with spillway in the distant background valley; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a few tiny turbines on a far horizon line. The sky is perfectly clear, zero clouds, vivid spring-blue with the morning sun low in the east casting long golden shadows across the landscape, yet the atmosphere feels dense and oppressive with a yellowish industrial haze near the horizon suggesting the high electricity price. Vegetation is early spring: pale green buds on deciduous trees, fresh grass, patches of frost in shadowed hollows reflecting the 6.4°C temperature. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's compositional depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism—rich impasto brushwork, luminous glazes in the sky, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower profile. No text, no labels.