Solar at 32 GW leads generation; low wind and firm coal and gas cover the residual load at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 58%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.0 GW
Solar
55.1 GW
Total generation
-1.2 GW
Net import
108.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
38% / 147.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
205
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, their aluminium frames glinting in bright mid-morning daylight filtered through scattered cumulus clouds. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the sky. Natural gas 4.9 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW stands behind the gas units as a darker, blockier coal-fired station with twin chimneys and conveyor belts. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with conical storage silos and modest stacks. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir along a stream in the foreground valley. Wind onshore 0.9 GW and wind offshore 0.6 GW are represented by a sparse handful of three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, their rotors nearly still in the calm air. The sky is partly cloudy — 38% coverage — with shafts of direct sunlight breaking through onto the panels; the atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, oppressive warmth despite the cool 8.6 °C spring temperature, hinting at market tension. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green beech leaves, yellow rapeseed fields beginning to bloom, damp meadows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, golden-warm Romantic palette contrasted with industrial grays and whites, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.