Strong solar and wind drive 78% renewables at evening peak, with 6.1 GW net imports covering the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 32%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
15.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.1 GW
Solar
47.1 GW
Total generation
-6.0 GW
Net import
92.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1% / 336.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 15.1 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green hills, catching low-angle golden light. Wind onshore 12.6 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate breeze across rolling farmland. Wind offshore 3.2 GW appears in the distant background as a cluster of offshore turbines on the hazy horizon line above a sliver of North Sea. Brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.4 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a timber-clad biomass CHP facility with a single tall stack and a modest steam wisp, surrounded by wood-chip storage mounds. Natural gas 4.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin silver exhaust stacks and a horizontal-recovery steam generator, positioned between the coal and biomass facilities. Hard coal 1.7 GW appears as a smaller conventional coal station with a single rectangular stack and conveyor belt, partially behind the lignite towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is visible as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled in the valley beside a river winding through the foreground. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in late April: the sun is low on the western horizon, casting a rich orange-gold glow across the lower sky, with the upper sky transitioning from warm amber to deepening blue. Nearly cloudless — only 1% cloud cover — so the atmosphere is luminous and clear. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C; fresh spring vegetation covers the rolling fields in vivid greens, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, birch and linden trees in full new leaf. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and warm-toned to reflect the elevated electricity price — a faintly hazy, gilded, almost oppressive warmth to the light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete texture, every PV panel's cell grid — in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism. No text, no labels.