Solar leads at 35.5 GW under heavy overcast while lignite and thermal plants firm a calm, low-wind German grid.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 59%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
75%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.5 GW
Solar
60.3 GW
Total generation
+1.4 GW
Net export
97.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93% / 34.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
183
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a muted grey-white sky; brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the overcast; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a squat industrial chimney and conveyor belts carrying fuel; natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer near the centre-left; hard coal 3.3 GW sits beside the lignite complex as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys; wind onshore 3.2 GW is shown as a sparse line of five three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge at far right, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a tiny cluster of turbines visible on a distant grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain at far right; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a swollen spring river in the middle distance. The lighting is full daytime at 10:00 in May but heavily overcast at 93% cloud cover: a flat, oppressive, uniformly bright grey sky pressing down, no direct sunlight, no shadows, a diffuse silvery luminosity. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, conveying the elevated 97.8 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued in the flat light — newly leafed beech and birch trees, damp meadows. Temperature about 10°C: figures in the scene wear light jackets. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze — but with meticulous technical accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module row, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and reinforced concrete texture. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of scale and mood transposed onto a modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.