Solar leads at 20.2 GW under overcast skies; 10.6 GW net imports fill the gap between generation and 50.1 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 51%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.2 GW
Solar
39.5 GW
Total generation
-10.6 GW
Net import
15.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 147.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
123
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.2 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky; wind offshore 4.7 GW appears in the distant right background as a line of three-blade turbines with white nacelles rising from a grey North Sea horizon; wind onshore 2.1 GW shows as a small cluster of lattice-tower turbines on a low ridge at right; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left middle-ground as a lignite power station with two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; biomass 4.1 GW appears beside it as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a rectangular stack and lighter exhaust; natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, set left of centre; hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible along a river in the left foreground; hard coal 0.6 GW is a single smaller stack behind the gas plant, barely visible. Midday lighting: full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, 100% cloud cover creating a flat bright-white sky with no blue patches, consistent with 9.9 °C early spring — bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, fresh green grass, damp earth tones. Low electricity price atmosphere: the scene feels calm, open, undramatic. Gentle wind barely moves the turbine blades. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's compositional depth merged with industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective softening the distant offshore turbines into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.