Wind dominates at 33.6 GW under full overcast, with solar, lignite, and gas filling the remaining load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 20%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
85%
Renewable share
33.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.6 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
77.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 88.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
102
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green early-spring farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.7 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far horizon above a grey North Sea sliver. Solar 11.6 GW occupies a mid-ground band of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels arrayed across flat fields, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under the overcast. Brown coal 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of large hyperbolic cooling towers on the left, emitting thick white steam plumes drifting rightward. Biomass 4.2 GW appears nearby as a pair of industrial facilities with wood-chip conveyors and moderate exhaust. Natural gas 3.1 GW is depicted as compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.5 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with a single stack and coal yard behind the gas units. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a wooded valley at far left. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a heavy, uniform blanket of grey stratus with no blue or sun visible—yet it is full late-afternoon daylight at 16:00 in March, so the landscape is well-lit in soft, diffuse, shadowless illumination. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the 77.4 EUR/MWh price, with a muted palette of slate grey, olive green, and earthy brown. Temperature is a mild 15.3°C: early-spring vegetation shows fresh green shoots on hedgerows, bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to bud, and winter wheat greening across ploughed fields. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric grandeur meets Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, luminous grey tonal harmony, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.