Solar leads at 32.8 GW under full overcast; coal and gas fill the gap as light winds and 3.1 GW net imports balance demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 58%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.8 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
-3.1 GW
Net import
79.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 84.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
117
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.8 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky, diffuse daylight with no shadows; brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a tall single stack and wood-chip conveyors in the left-centre midground; natural gas 3.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a polished exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer slightly left of centre; hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single blocky boiler house and chimney beside the lignite complex; wind onshore 6.7 GW is shown as a line of modern three-blade turbines on low hills in the right background, blades turning slowly in gentle breeze; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a shallow valley at far left. The sky is heavy, oppressive, entirely clouded with no blue patches, lit by full mid-morning daylight at 09:00 — bright but shadowless. Early spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees at about 10°C. The atmosphere feels weighty and dense, conveying moderate price pressure. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.