Overcast skies limit solar while brown coal and imports fill a 60 GW demand gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 28%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
66%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.3 GW
Solar
47.7 GW
Total generation
-12.6 GW
Net import
136.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
238
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by lignite conveyors and open-pit earthworks; solar 13.3 GW occupies the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under dense clouds, no sunshine visible; wind onshore 10.7 GW spans the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers across rolling green spring hills, rotors turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 2.0 GW appears in the far right distance as a small cluster of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon; natural gas 4.7 GW sits in the right foreground as two compact CCGT power plants with slim exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.6 GW appears as a mid-ground coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and rectangular boiler house; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a collection of wood-chip silos and small industrial chimneys with faint exhaust near the coal plant; hydro 1.4 GW is a modest dam and reservoir tucked into a wooded valley at far left. The sky is entirely overcast at 95% cloud cover — a thick, low, uniform blanket of grey stratus with no sun disk visible, yet full diffuse May-morning daylight illuminates the scene evenly at 09:00. Direct solar radiation is nearly zero: no shadows, no highlights, a flat oppressive light. Temperature 8°C: spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, early wildflowers in meadows, trees in young leaf. The atmosphere feels heavy and brooding, consistent with a high electricity price — the air dense, the palette muted greys, sage greens, and slate blues. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective receding into haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower curve, every PV module frame. The composition stretches as a panoramic industrial landscape, monumental yet melancholic. No text, no labels.