Solar leads at 14.2 GW but fading; brown coal and imports fill the evening gap at high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 38%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.2 GW
Solar
37.0 GW
Total generation
-9.0 GW
Net import
123.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
72% / 201.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
256
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 14.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks, catching the last amber-orange light; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; hard coal 3.3 GW appears behind them as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and dark smoke; natural gas 3.5 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin polished exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a broad rectangular building, conveyor belts, and a modest smokestack; wind onshore 3.3 GW appears as a sparse row of five three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice towers turning slowly in the background right; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a single distant turbine silhouette on the far horizon; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a valley at far left. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in May — the sun sits low on the western horizon, casting a warm orange-red glow along the lower sky while the upper sky deepens to slate blue-grey, partially obscured by layered clouds at 72% cover. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 123.2 EUR/MWh price — a thick humid haze hangs over the landscape. Spring vegetation is lush and green at 17°C; birch and linden trees in fresh leaf line the edges of fields. Light wind barely stirs the grass. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the middle ground, symbolizing the 9 GW of net imports. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing western horizon and the darkening eastern sky — yet every turbine blade, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.