Solar at 35 GW leads an 84.5% renewable mix under overcast skies, pushing prices to 8.8 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
84%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.0 GW
Solar
57.5 GW
Total generation
+2.6 GW
Net export
8.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 72.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.0 GW dominates the entire centre and right side of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green farmland; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; wind onshore 6.3 GW appears as a scattered line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on rolling hills behind the solar fields, blades turning very slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the hazy horizon where flat land meets grey sky; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-framed fuel storage area and a single modest smokestack near the coal complex; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, tucked between the lignite towers and the biomass plant; hydro 1.5 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a visible water spillway in the foreground beside a calm river reflecting the grey sky; hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a single smaller industrial stack behind the lignite complex, nearly lost in the steam. Full midday daylight at 14:00 in late May, but the sky is entirely overcast — a uniform pale-grey blanket of stratus clouds with no blue visible, light is bright but completely diffuse with no shadows, giving a soft luminous quality. Temperature 19.7°C, lush late-spring green vegetation, wildflowers in meadow grass, birch and linden trees in full leaf. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.