Overcast solar leads at 18.4 GW, but high thermal output and 8.9 GW net imports reflect weak wind and strong morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 38%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.4 GW
Solar
48.8 GW
Total generation
-9.0 GW
Net import
152.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 20.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
252
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.4 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only grey diffuse light under a completely overcast sky; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the low clouds; wind onshore 6.0 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on gentle hills in the right-middle distance, their rotors nearly still in the calm air; natural gas 5.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.4 GW is rendered as a coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and twin chimneys beside a rail-fed coal yard, positioned behind the gas plant; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip combustion facility with a rounded silo and modest stack near the right edge; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway visible at the far right along a river; wind offshore 0.9 GW is faintly suggested as distant turbines on the horizon line. The lighting is full daytime at 08:00 but entirely diffuse — no shadows, no direct sun, a flat white-grey ceiling of stratus cloud pressing low over the landscape, giving a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The temperature is cool at 10 °C: spring vegetation is fresh green but muted, damp fields, bare-branched trees just leafing out. The overall mood is weighty and industrial. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour in greens, greys, and industrial ochres, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty horizons, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's gridline pattern. No text, no labels.