Solar leads at 22.7 GW under overcast skies, but weak wind forces heavy brown coal and gas dispatch with 9.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.7 GW
Solar
47.6 GW
Total generation
-9.6 GW
Net import
97.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 178.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
246
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat green spring farmland under diffuse white light; brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, with conveyor belts feeding raw lignite into a sprawling power station complex; natural gas 4.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze in the centre-left middleground; hard coal 3.7 GW sits beside them as a single large power station with rectangular cooling towers and coal stockpiles; biomass 3.9 GW is represented by a mid-sized plant with a tall cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard in the centre; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the far centre-right distance nestled in gentle hills; wind onshore 2.6 GW is shown as a small scattered group of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the far background, rotors barely turning in near-still air; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint silhouette of two turbines on the distant hazy horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with a flat, bright, oppressive white-grey cloud layer admitting no direct sunlight—uniform diffuse illumination consistent with 14:00 full daylight but no shadows, giving a heavy, pressured atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation is fresh and green at 17.8°C, with rapeseed fields showing early yellow blooms. No wind motion in trees or grass—air is calm. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant industrial structures—but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors on lattice towers, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The mood is weighty and industrious, a grand but sober panorama of a nation's energy system straining under a still, overcast afternoon. No text, no labels.