Solar (28.4 GW) and wind (27.8 GW) dominate under full overcast, driving 13 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 41%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
27.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.4 GW
Solar
70.0 GW
Total generation
+13.0 GW
Net export
63.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 76.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
83
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.4 GW occupies the broad centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces gleaming faintly under diffuse light; wind onshore 22.6 GW spans the entire background horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, rotors spinning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-left horizon above a grey river or canal; brown coal 4.1 GW rises at the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base; biomass 4.0 GW sits beside the coal plant as a smaller industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single slender smokestack releasing pale vapour; natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with twin polished exhaust stacks and a heat recovery unit, positioned centre-left; hard coal 1.6 GW appears as a single older rectangular power station with a tall brick chimney emitting thin grey smoke; hydro 1.6 GW is shown as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water spilling over, nestled in the lower-right corner beside budding but sparse spring trees. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform flat ceiling of pale grey-white stratiform cloud, no blue sky visible, no sun disk, yet the scene is fully lit with soft, shadowless midday daylight typical of 11:00 in May. Vegetation is early-spring green but restrained by the cool 5.6 °C temperature: fresh grass, half-leafed birches, some bare branches remaining. The atmosphere is cool and heavy, slightly oppressive to reflect the 63.5 EUR/MWh price — a weighty, brooding quality to the clouds pressing down. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro despite the overcast, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.