Diffuse solar (24 GW) and wind (17.8 GW) dominate under full overcast, with lignite and gas covering residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 41%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
17.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.0 GW
Solar
57.9 GW
Total generation
-5.5 GW
Net import
80.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 2.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
123
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.0 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a uniformly grey overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light; wind onshore 12.3 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze across rolling green spring hills; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, adjacent to a lignite open-pit mine with terraced brown earth; biomass 4.4 GW sits left of centre as a mid-sized industrial plant with squat chimneys and wood-chip storage silos; natural gas 3.5 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller power station behind the gas plant with a single cooling tower and coal conveyors; hydro 1.5 GW is a modest dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the far left background. Time is mid-morning with full but overcast daylight — no direct sun, no shadows, a flat silvery luminosity across the entire scene. Temperature is cool at 5°C: early spring vegetation, bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to bud, damp green grass. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price — low clouds press down on the landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour palette of greys, steel-blues, muted greens, and warm industrial ochres, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every technology, dramatic compositional scale contrasting industrial structures against the vast overcast sky. No text, no labels.