Solar leads at 30.7 GW under overcast skies; brown coal and gas cover weak wind output.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 57%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
73%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.7 GW
Solar
53.9 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
45.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
83% / 189.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
200
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland into the hazy distance. Brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at the base. Biomass 4.1 GW appears in the left-centre as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall brick smokestack and wood-chip storage silos. Natural gas 3.3 GW sits centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit. Hard coal 3.0 GW is rendered behind the gas plant as a traditional power station with two large chimneys and coal bunkers. Wind onshore 2.9 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the far centre-background, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley at the far left edge. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is just barely hinted at by faint turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. The sky is late-morning, 11:00 spring daylight: predominantly overcast with thick grey-white stratocumulus at 83% coverage, yet with patches where diffused sunlight breaks through, casting a bright but flat, shadowless illumination across the landscape. The sun's disc is faintly visible as a pale white circle behind thin cloud. Early spring vegetation — bare-branched trees just beginning to bud, pale green grass, some brown remnants of winter — at 8.7°C. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with muted blues and greys in the distance, warm earth tones in the foreground. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV panel grid lines and junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic curves with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust geometry. The composition feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels, no people.