Solar leads at 12.7 GW but near-zero wind and heavy cloud drive 7 GW lignite and 13.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 39%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 22%
66%
Renewable share
2.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.7 GW
Solar
32.1 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
67.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 207.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
249
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 12.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland under diffuse grey-white daylight; brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite; biomass 4.2 GW appears as mid-ground industrial facilities with cylindrical fermentation tanks and wood-chip silos with thin grey exhaust; natural gas 3.0 GW rendered as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer; wind onshore 1.1 GW shown as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.6 GW depicted as a handful of offshore turbines visible on a hazy horizon line over a flat grey sea in the far background; hydro 1.5 GW as a concrete dam with modest spillway in a valley to the far left; hard coal 1.1 GW as a single dark-brick power station with twin chimneys beside a rail siding. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick uniform layer of grey stratus clouds at 16:00 in April — full daylight but flat and shadowless, the light cool and diffuse, no direct sun visible, a faintly oppressive heaviness in the atmosphere suggesting moderately elevated electricity prices. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green leaves on birch and linden trees, green grass, some yellow rapeseed fields beginning to bloom. Temperature around 12°C — figures in light jackets near the solar array. Air is dead still — no motion in flags, no ripple on water, smoke and steam rising perfectly vertical. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's grid lines. No text, no labels.