Solar leads at 35.8 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas fill the 21.1 GW residual load in cold, calm conditions.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 56%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
75%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.8 GW
Solar
63.8 GW
Total generation
-0.2 GW
Net import
87.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 56.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
179
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.8 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their dark blue surfaces reflecting a uniformly grey sky; brown coal 9.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers venting thick white steam plumes into the overcast; wind onshore 4.4 GW appears as a scattered line of five three-blade turbines on a low ridge behind the solar fields, their rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 2.7 GW is suggested by distant turbines barely visible on a grey horizon line; natural gas 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a modest heat shimmer, positioned between the coal station and the solar arrays; hard coal 2.2 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single rectangular chimney emitting faint grey smoke, tucked beside the lignite complex; biomass 4.1 GW is shown as a wood-clad biomass facility with a gently steaming stack adjacent to stacked timber, near the foreground; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible at the lower left edge of the composition. TIME AND LIGHT: 10:00 AM late March in central Germany, full daylight but entirely overcast at 98% cloud cover — the sky is a heavy uniform pearl-grey blanket with no blue patches and no visible sun disc, light is flat and diffuse, casting almost no shadows, the atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty suggesting the high electricity price. WEATHER AND SEASON: temperature 2.3 °C, bare deciduous trees with no leaves, brown dormant grass, patches of frost lingering in shaded areas, still cold air with almost no wind movement in foreground vegetation. The landscape is flat north German plain. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, muted earth tones and greys, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every technology — turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, individual PV panel frames and junction boxes, hyperbolic cooling tower concrete ribbing, CCGT exhaust stack fluting. The composition conveys industrial sublime: humanity's energy infrastructure sprawling beneath an indifferent leaden sky. No text, no labels, no human figures.