Wind and fading solar lead at 74.6% renewables, but brown coal and gas set the 100 EUR/MWh price at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 26%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
75%
Renewable share
17.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.4 GW
Solar
48.4 GW
Total generation
+2.5 GW
Net export
100.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 61.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
179
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into the hazy distance; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey sea inlet. Solar 12.4 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low-angle mounting racks reflecting dull grey overcast light. Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left quarter as two massive lignite power stations with iconic hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the oppressive cloud layer. Hard coal 2.3 GW stands just right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with tall rectangular boiler houses and a single chimney trailing dark smoke. Natural gas 3.8 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, positioned centre-left. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack with faint white exhaust, placed between the gas plant and the solar fields. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with visible spillway water in the left foreground beside a river winding through the scene. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover with a heavy, oppressive, low ceiling of uniform grey stratus—no blue sky visible anywhere. Time is 18:00 in May: the sun is near the horizon behind the clouds, casting a dim, diffused warm-orange glow along the lowest strip of the western horizon only, with the upper sky darkening to slate grey, creating a dusk transition. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: lush green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy, wildflowers dotting meadow edges. Light wind animates the turbine blades mid-rotation and ruffles grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato hazing of distant structures, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dim dusk glow and the dark industrial silhouettes—yet every piece of engineering rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid lines, cooling tower ribbed concrete textures, transformer yards with insulators. No text, no labels, no humans prominent.