Overcast skies limit solar to 21 GW while near-zero wind forces heavy coal and gas dispatch, driving 10.9 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 45%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
60%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
47.2 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
131.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
277
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.1 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull grey under heavy cloud diffused light, no sun reflections. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, plus a tall main stack. Natural gas 6.5 GW appears centre-left as a modern CCGT plant with a sleek exhaust stack and a smaller steam plume. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plant as a traditional coal station with a single large chimney and visible coal conveyors. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power plant with a modest stack and stored timber piles, positioned right of centre in the mid-ground. Hydro 1.4 GW is visible as a small run-of-river weir and turbine house on a grey river cutting through the lower right of the composition. Wind onshore 1.1 GW and wind offshore 0.4 GW are represented by just three or four tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers standing nearly motionless on a distant ridge at far right, blades barely turned. The sky is entirely covered by a thick, low, oppressive blanket of uniform grey stratus cloud — no blue, no sun — conveying the high electricity price through a heavy, claustrophobic atmosphere. The lighting is soft, flat, diffuse morning daylight consistent with 08:00 in May under total overcast — no shadows, no highlights, muted greens and greys. Vegetation is mid-spring: fresh but subdued green grass, leafy deciduous trees, cool 7°C air suggested by slight mist near the river. The air is perfectly still — no movement in smoke plumes, flags limp, water glassy. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and industrial structure. The mood is sober and weighty. No text, no labels.