Solar leads at 19.5 GW under overcast skies; wind adds 12.4 GW; 7.2 GW net imports cover the shortfall at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 37%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
12.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.5 GW
Solar
52.0 GW
Total generation
-7.2 GW
Net import
103.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 63.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
202
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.5 GW dominates the foreground as an expansive field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting a flat white overcast sky with no direct sunlight. Wind onshore 8.3 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on the middle-ground hills to the right, rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 4.1 GW is visible as a distant cluster of taller offshore turbines on the far-right horizon beyond a grey North Sea inlet. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left-centre background as a large lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling. Biomass 4.0 GW sits as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a single squat smokestack and wood pellet silos beside the coal complex. Natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and gleaming steel heat-recovery unit, positioned just right of the coal station. Hard coal 3.3 GW is a smaller conventional coal plant with two rectangular cooling towers and a conveyor belt feeding dark fuel from a pile. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible as white cascading water in a stream cutting through the lower-left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, heavy, pale-grey blanket with no blue patches and no sun disk, yet full diffuse afternoon daylight illuminates the scene evenly from above. The atmosphere feels dense and slightly oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price. Vegetation is fresh spring green — young beech leaves, bright meadow grass, scattered wildflowers — at 13.7 °C in early May. The landscape evokes the Lausitz or Rhineland lignite regions. 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 palette of greys, greens, and industrial ochres, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening the distant turbines and cooling towers. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, lattice transmission towers with sagging conductors, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry. The painting balances sublime industrial grandeur with pastoral spring softness. No text, no labels.