Overcast dawn: solar diffuse light leads at 9 GW, onshore wind at 8.2 GW, with thermal backup and 4 GW net imports filling the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 29%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 13%
75%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.0 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
-4.0 GW
Net import
85.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
170
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 9.0 GW occupies the upper-right quarter as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle hills, their surfaces dull grey under heavy overcast with no direct sunlight; onshore wind 8.2 GW fills the right third as dozens of three-blade turbine rotors on tall lattice and tubular towers, blades nearly motionless in still air; biomass 4.5 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of industrial biomass plants with modest rectangular stacks trailing thin white exhaust; brown coal 3.8 GW dominates the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick grey-white steam plumes rising into the low clouds; natural gas 2.8 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway in the left foreground near a river; hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller cooling tower beside a conveyor belt and coal pile at the far-left edge. The sky is entirely blanketed in dense, low stratocumulus clouds — oppressive and heavy, no blue visible anywhere — casting a flat, grey, diffuse pre-dawn light. It is 07:00 in early May: the eastern horizon shows only the faintest pale blue-grey luminance through the overcast, no direct sun, a deep twilight quality persists. The landscape is spring-green with fresh deciduous leaves on scattered birch and beech trees, cool-toned meadow grass glistening with morning dew. Temperature is cool at 10 °C — a light mist clings to low ground near the river. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, reflecting the high electricity price. Transmission towers with high-voltage lines cross the middle distance, symbolising the net import flow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich muted colour palette of slate greys, olive greens, and steel blues, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered fog and cloud, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.