Diffuse solar (33.9 GW) and wind (16.7 GW) dominate under full overcast, keeping prices low at 19.6 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 54%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
16.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.9 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
+0.5 GW
Net export
19.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 5.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.9 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat white sky; wind onshore 11.6 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green hills in the right third of the composition, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the far horizon above a river estuary; biomass 4.3 GW sits as a cluster of timber-clad CHP plants with short stacks and wood-chip storage yards in the left middle distance; brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left background as three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes; natural gas 2.3 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.3 GW is a single smaller industrial stack with a faint dark-grey wisp near the gas plant; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley between the hills. Time is mid-morning full daylight but under 100% overcast—the sky is a uniform bright pearl-grey with no visible sun disc, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Temperature is 6.3 °C in late April: fresh early-spring vegetation, bright green grass, budding deciduous trees not yet fully leafed. The atmosphere is calm and mild, matching a low electricity price—open, spacious, unhurried. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and concrete texture. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.