Diffuse solar leads at 25.5 GW under heavy overcast; lignite and coal backstop a 4 GW net import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 45%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
75%
Renewable share
11.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.5 GW
Solar
57.1 GW
Total generation
-4.0 GW
Net import
89.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 17.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
179
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.5 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting only the pale grey light of a heavily overcast sky — no direct sunlight, no shadows; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud ceiling, adjacent open-pit mine visible at ground level; wind onshore 8.7 GW appears as two dozen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by a line of turbines on the far horizon above a barely visible grey sea; hard coal 3.2 GW is rendered as a single large power station with rectangular boiler house and tall square chimney emitting a thin grey exhaust plume, positioned left of centre; natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single bright exhaust stack and a small cylindrical HRSG unit, placed between the coal station and the solar fields; biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-clad plant with a short stubby chimney and steam wisps beside stacked timber logs, near the right edge; hydro 1.8 GW is a small concrete dam in a forested valley in the far right background. The sky is 94% overcast — a thick, oppressive blanket of stratiform cloud in tones of pewter and slate, pressing low, evoking the 89.3 EUR/MWh price tension; no blue sky visible. Lighting is full diffuse midday (13:00 Berlin time), bright but shadowless, flat illumination. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and young deciduous leaves on scattered trees. Temperature 13.9 °C suggests cool dampness — slight mist near the ground around the cooling towers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic cloud textures, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.