Diffuse solar leads at 33.9 GW under heavy overcast; coal plants provide 10.9 GW backup amid light winds.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
75%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.9 GW
Solar
60.7 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
107.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 36.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
175
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting flat grey-white light; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; hard coal 4.4 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts just left of centre; natural gas 4.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower in the mid-left; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest timber-clad plant with a rounded silo and thin exhaust beside the gas plant; wind onshore 5.6 GW is a line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills at centre-rear, their rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.8 GW is faintly visible as tiny turbines on a distant horizon line to the far right; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway tucked in the far-left valley. The sky is fully overcast at 98% cloud cover — a low, uniform blanket of dense stratiform cloud in pewter and ash grey, no sun disc visible, diffuse flat daylight at 10:00 AM in May. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 107.8 EUR/MWh price — the air seems thick, weighted. Temperature 12.3 °C spring conditions: bright fresh-green foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers beginning in meadows between panel rows, grass lush. Wind is nearly still — smoke and steam rise almost vertically. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through layered grey-blue aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels.