Solar at 34.8 GW leads an 83% renewable mix on a cloudless spring morning, with residual coal and gas filling the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 60%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
8.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.8 GW
Solar
58.4 GW
Total generation
-1.9 GW
Net import
66.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 231.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from centre to right, their aluminium frames glinting sharply under a brilliant cloudless sky at 9 AM with high direct sunlight and long morning shadows. Wind onshore 7.8 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines at the right, rotors turning gently in light 8.7 km/h breeze. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside a conveyor gantry and lignite stockpile. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial CHP plant with a cylindrical silo and modest stack emitting pale vapour. Natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, situated left of centre. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and single chimney trailing thin smoke, near the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir on a small river in the foreground. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is omitted as negligible. Vegetation is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on birch and beech trees, rapeseed fields not yet flowering, cool 8.7°C atmosphere with crisp clear air. The sky is entirely blue, zero clouds, with the sun at roughly 35 degrees elevation in the east-southeast casting warm golden-white light. The atmosphere is moderately weighted — not oppressive but with a subtle industrial haze near the coal plants, reflecting the 66.4 EUR/MWh price level. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower hyperbolic curvature, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.