Solar at 39 GW dominates under clear skies; persistent coal and gas baseload keeps prices elevated at 94 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.1 GW
Solar
60.2 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
94.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 409.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.1 GW dominates the scene: the entire foreground and middle ground are covered with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under intense, unobstructed midmorning sun. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, adjacent to a lignite open-pit mine with terraced brown earth. Hard coal 3.4 GW appears just right of the brown coal as two smaller cooling towers with a conveyor belt and dark coal stockpile. Natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant in the centre-left background with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single heat-recovery steam generator. Biomass 4.1 GW shows as a mid-sized industrial facility with a large cylindrical silo and a modest chimney emitting thin grey smoke, positioned in the right background. Wind onshore 1.4 GW and wind offshore 0.7 GW appear as a small group of five three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles on a distant ridge at the far right, their blades barely turning in the light breeze. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small river with a low concrete weir and run-of-river powerhouse visible in the middle distance. The sky is completely clear, deep blue, with no clouds at all; the sun is high in the east-southeast casting short, crisp shadows. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass between panel rows, budding deciduous trees — reflects the 11.4 °C May temperature. The atmosphere carries a faint oppressive haze near the thermal plants, hinting at the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective giving depth from the gleaming solar foreground to the steaming coal towers on the horizon. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.