Solar leads at 20.4 GW under overcast skies; brown coal, gas, and hard coal fill 18.9 GW of residual load with 3.3 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 40%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.4 GW
Solar
51.7 GW
Total generation
-3.3 GW
Net import
108.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 186.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
254
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a uniformly overcast, pale-grey sky with diffuse white light; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy clouds; natural gas 6.0 GW appears centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, thin exhaust wisps; hard coal 4.9 GW stands behind the gas plant as a dark industrial complex with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts carrying black fuel; wind onshore 5.3 GW is rendered as a line of eight three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a low ridge in the centre-background, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint grey sea sliver; biomass 4.1 GW is a wooden-clad biogas facility with a green domed digester and small stack near the solar fields; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water in the lower-left corner. The time is mid-afternoon: full daylight but completely diffuse, no shadows, no blue sky — the entire canopy is a heavy, oppressive blanket of stratus clouds pressing down, evoking the high electricity price. Early spring vegetation: fields of young green shoots, bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to leaf, temperature around 12 °C. The atmosphere feels tense and close, humid air softening distant details. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into grey mist — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack proportion. No text, no labels.