Overcast spring morning: gas, coal, and diffuse solar share the load as 5 GW of imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 20%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 13%
58%
Renewable share
9.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.4 GW
Solar
41.1 GW
Total generation
-5.1 GW
Net import
131.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
283
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 8.4 GW occupies the right quarter as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only grey diffuse light under total overcast; natural gas 7.1 GW fills the centre-right as a cluster of modern CCGT power plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer; brown coal 5.4 GW dominates the left as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising and spreading into the low cloud base, beside open-pit lignite excavation terraces; hard coal 5.0 GW sits left-of-centre as a dark-brick power station with rectangular chimneys trailing grey smoke; wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on gentle hills in the mid-distance, blades turning very slowly in light wind; wind offshore 4.3 GW is suggested by a row of monopile turbines on a hazy grey horizon line beyond a flat coastal strip; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-clad industrial plant with a single stack and modest steam plume near the centre; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white spillwater in the foreground. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover, low stratus ceiling in shades of iron grey and pewter pressing down oppressively — the heavy atmosphere reflecting the 131 EUR/MWh price. Full morning daylight at 08:00 in early April, but no sun breaks through; the light is flat, cool, and shadowless. Temperature is near 5°C: bare deciduous trees with only the first swelling buds, pale-green grass still winter-faded, patches of frost lingering in shadows. The landscape is north German lowland with gentle undulations. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmospherics combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich layered colour in muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements. Every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT heat-recovery housings. The painting conveys the weight of a modern industrial nation drawing power from every available source on a cold grey morning. No text, no labels.