Diffuse solar leads at 18.7 GW under full overcast; weak wind forces heavy coal and gas dispatch, lifting prices above 100 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 44%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.7 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
+0.3 GW
Net export
100.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 16.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse grey light under total overcast; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the heavy cloud deck, adjacent lignite conveyors and open-pit terraces visible; wind onshore 4.0 GW appears as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the mid-ground, rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with tall chimneys and wood-chip storage silos in the centre-left; natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower emitting thin vapour, positioned centre-right; hard coal 2.9 GW shows as a coal-fired station with a large boiler house and rail-fed coal bunkers in the far left background; wind offshore 1.4 GW is faintly visible as distant turbines on a grey horizon line at far right; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir in a shallow valley at far centre. Time is 17:00 dusk in May: the sky is completely overcast with heavy, oppressive stratiform clouds pressing low, an orange-red glow barely visible on the western horizon beneath the cloud base, upper sky darkening to slate grey. Temperature is mild at 15.6°C, spring-green deciduous trees with full canopy, lush grass in meadows, wildflowers dotting the foreground. The atmosphere feels dense and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty mood. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich colour palette of greys, muted greens, warm amber horizon glow, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze around distant structures, meticulous engineering detail on every technology — turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower fluting, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels.