Solar leads at 27.4 GW under full overcast; low wind forces 16.4 GW of thermal generation and modest net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 49%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 12%
70%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
55.5 GW
Total generation
-1.9 GW
Net import
125.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 22.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
205
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting flat diffuse light; brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting slowly in still air, connected to a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; natural gas 5.3 GW appears as two compact modern CCGT plants in the left-centre with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.5 GW sits beside them as a smaller but heavy industrial facility with chimneys and coal stockpiles; wind onshore 5.6 GW is rendered as a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers along a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by a few tiny turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a green-roofed warehouse and a single stack amid trees; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station along a winding river in the middle distance. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy uniform grey stratus clouds pressing low, no blue visible, creating a flat oppressive daylight — it is 09:00 in May so brightness is full but completely diffused with no shadows on the ground. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green beech and birch foliage, dandelion-dotted meadows, 11°C coolness implied by dew on metal surfaces. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive, the low clouds seeming to press down on the landscape. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich muted colour palette of slate grey, sage green, steel blue, and ochre; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with haze softening distant cooling towers; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.