Overcast solar at 37.5 GW leads generation; brown coal and gas backstop a moderate-price, high-renewable afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.5 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
+5.8 GW
Net export
64.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 58.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the composition from centre to right; brown coal 5.7 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; wind onshore 4.9 GW is represented by a modest line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 4.0 GW sits as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a squat cylindrical silo and thin exhaust column; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with polished steel exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and coal conveyors; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.6 GW is a barely visible row of turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is a uniform blanket of heavy stratiform cloud at 100% cover, no blue patches, no direct sun, but a bright diffuse midday glow at 14:00 illuminating everything in flat, shadowless white-grey light typical of overcast May. The temperature is 11.5 °C — spring vegetation is fresh bright green but restrained, with flowering rapeseed fields adding yellow accents. The atmosphere is slightly oppressive and hazy, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into misty distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower ribbing, and gas-stack geometry. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.