Diffuse solar leads at 21.3 GW under full overcast, with wind at 17 GW; thermal fills the gap alongside 3.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
16.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.3 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
113.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
166
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.3 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light under total overcast; wind onshore 13.0 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning steadily across green spring pastures; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears in the far distance as a line of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea strip; brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling; hard coal 3.0 GW stands beside it as a smaller plant with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-clad biomass CHP plants with modest chimneys and stacked timber fuel piles; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with churning white water visible at the edge of a winding river. The sky is entirely blanketed in heavy, low stratus cloud — no sun disc visible, flat diffuse daylight at late-morning intensity, 11:00 Berlin time. Temperature is a cool 7.5 °C; spring vegetation is fresh bright green but muted under the oppressive grey sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressing, reflecting the high electricity price — thick cloud layers create a brooding weight over the landscape. Wind at 14.5 km/h bends young grass and causes visible blade rotation. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV module's cell grid — a monumental industrial landscape rendered as a masterwork. No text, no labels.