Solar leads at 26.6 GW under heavy overcast; weak wind and firm coal and gas dispatch keep prices elevated at 104.5 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 50%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.6 GW
Solar
53.1 GW
Total generation
+1.9 GW
Net export
104.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 55.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, covering rolling green May fields; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes merging with the overcast sky; natural gas 4.2 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and thinner, whiter plumes just left of centre; wind onshore 4.3 GW shown as a modest row of five three-blade turbines on a ridge behind the solar fields, blades barely turning; wind offshore 4.0 GW suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon line, half-lost in haze; hard coal 2.4 GW rendered as a smaller coal plant with a single square stack and visible coal conveyor at the far left edge; biomass 4.2 GW depicted as a medium timber-clad biomass CHP plant with a modest chimney releasing pale vapour, nestled between the gas plant and the solar fields; hydro 1.4 GW shown as a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground stream. Full mid-morning daylight at 09:00 in May, but the sky is almost entirely covered with a thick, oppressive blanket of low stratocumulus clouds at 94% cover — only the faintest hint of brighter diffused light where the sun might be, no direct shadows on the ground. Temperature 7.6°C: spring vegetation is fresh bright green but the air feels cool and damp, with mist clinging to low valleys. Wind is nearly still — grass upright, no leaf movement. The heavy atmosphere conveys the elevated 104.5 EUR/MWh price — the sky presses down with weight and density. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre colour palette of slate greys, mossy greens, and industrial ochres; visible impasto brushwork in the cloud masses and steam plumes; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack; atmospheric aerial perspective fading the offshore turbines into luminous grey mist. No text, no labels.