Solar leads at 27 GW under heavy overcast; weak wind forces 18.2 GW of thermal dispatch and 5.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 50%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 17%
66%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.0 GW
Solar
53.8 GW
Total generation
-5.7 GW
Net import
115.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91% / 86.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.0 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a diffuse grey-white sky; brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; hard coal 3.7 GW sits behind the gas units as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and coal conveyor; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with short squat stacks and piled timber at mid-right; wind onshore 2.0 GW appears as a sparse row of a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon; hydro 1.7 GW shows as a small dam and reservoir nestled in gentle hills at the far right. TIME: 09:00 full daylight but heavily overcast — a thick 91% cloud blanket diffuses all light into a flat, oppressive, pearl-grey sky with no visible sun disc, no shadows on the ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, the air dense and still, spring vegetation at 9.5°C showing fresh green grass and budding trees but subdued in muted tones. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich earthy and grey colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze between the thermal plants and the distant wind turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.