Overcast skies limit solar to diffuse output; coal, gas, and 10.4 GW net imports meet strong midday demand at 97 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 35%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 13%
60%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.7 GW
Solar
52.7 GW
Total generation
-10.4 GW
Net import
97.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 11.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
269
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.7 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only a dull grey sky with no direct sunlight — panels clearly visible but without glint or sparkle. Natural gas 8.8 GW appears centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale heat shimmer. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a row of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Hard coal 5.9 GW stands beside them as a large coal-fired plant with rectangular boiler houses, tall chimneys, and darker grey exhaust. Wind onshore 6.5 GW appears as a modest line of three-blade turbines on low hills in the mid-distance, rotors turning sluggishly in light wind. Biomass 4.0 GW is a medium-sized facility with a domed digester and short stack near the right edge. Hydro 1.7 GW shows as a small dam with spillway in the far right distance. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a barely visible cluster of tiny turbines on the extreme horizon. The sky is entirely overcast — a flat, heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform grey cloud with no blue patches, no sun disk visible, consistent with 100% cloud cover and a high electricity price creating a brooding, weighty atmosphere. The light is diffuse midday brightness — shadowless, pale, even — characteristic of 13:00 under total overcast in central Germany. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first faint green buds, brown stubble fields, and patches of fresh green grass at 10°C. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines on lattice pylons cross the scene, symbolising the heavy import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette emphasising greys, slate blues, ochres, and industrial whites — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.