Solar leads at 26.2 GW under overcast skies; brown coal and gas provide 12.7 GW of firm baseload support.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 47%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
69%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.2 GW
Solar
55.9 GW
Total generation
-1.1 GW
Net import
87.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 424.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
218
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.2 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast, sweeping fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Wind onshore 5.4 GW appears as a mid-ground row of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-free tubular towers, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-left. Hard coal 4.5 GW shows as a traditional power station with a single large smokestack and rectangular boiler house, adjacent to the brown coal complex. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a short cylindrical stack and small woodchip storage dome, nestled near the wind turbines. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested on the far horizon as a faint line of turbines above a distant coastal haze. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming spillway visible in a river cutting through the middle ground. Time is 14:00 on an April afternoon: full daylight but entirely overcast — the sky is a uniform blanket of pale grey-white cloud with no blue patches, yet the scene is brightly lit with soft, shadowless diffuse illumination. Temperature is a cool 11°C spring day; vegetation is fresh early-spring green with some bare branches remaining, grass lush but trees not fully leafed. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, matching the elevated electricity price — the air is thick, humid, the cloud ceiling feels low and pressing. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with muted tones receding into grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing. The palette is dominated by pewter greys, soft sage greens, and warm industrial ochres. No text, no labels, no people prominent — a grand industrial landscape rendered as fine art.