Solar leads at 25.9 GW under overcast skies; low wind keeps coal and gas firmly dispatched at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 43%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
64%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
59.7 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
100.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
257
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat white sky; brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; hard coal 5.2 GW appears just left of centre as a dark industrial power station with tall brick stacks trailing grey smoke; natural gas 5.6 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with slender polished exhaust stacks and smaller heat-recovery housings; wind onshore 2.9 GW is rendered as a handful of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle hill at far centre, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon glimpsed through a gap between industrial structures; biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a green-roofed storage hall and a single low smokestack; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam in the foreground creek. The time is late morning: full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, a uniformly overcast 99% cloud ceiling pressing low and heavy, lending an oppressive weight consistent with 100.7 EUR/MWh pricing. Temperature is near 5 °C — bare deciduous trees with no leaves, faded brown grass, patches of lingering frost in shadows. Wind is almost still — no motion in flags or grass. The palette is muted: pewter sky, slate greys, dull greens, industrial ochre. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic Caspar David Friedrich–inspired composition — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower contour, every PV panel frame is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.