Diffuse solar at 26.3 GW and wind at 19.3 GW dominate under full overcast, with lignite and gas filling residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
19.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.3 GW
Solar
59.2 GW
Total generation
+3.6 GW
Net export
45.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 48.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
102
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.3 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat pewter sky — occupying roughly 44% of the scene's visual area. Wind onshore 15.2 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into misty distance across green spring meadows, blades turning slowly in light 6 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 4.1 GW appears as a line of turbines visible on the far horizon above a grey sea inlet. Brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky, with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible at the base. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage dome nestled among trees in the middle-left. Natural gas 2.3 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat-recovery unit behind the solar fields. Hard coal 1.5 GW shows as a smaller coal-fired station with a single cooling tower and coal yard to the far left. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse along a river cutting through the lower-left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, luminous grey-white canopy with no blue visible, providing bright but completely diffuse mid-afternoon daylight consistent with 15:00 in late May. The atmosphere is slightly hazy and mildly oppressive, reflecting a 45.7 EUR/MWh price — not dramatic but heavy. Vegetation is lush mid-spring green: fresh beech and linden leaves, wildflowers in meadows, rapeseed fields in yellow bloom. Temperature is a mild 16.6 °C — no heat shimmer, comfortable spring air. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato in the distant industrial plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower flute, and CCGT stack. The composition has classical landscape proportions with a low horizon line emphasising the immense overcast sky. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.