Solar still leads at 22.1 GW under overcast skies; brown coal at 8.3 GW and wind at 8.3 GW support the evening ramp.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 44%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
72%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.1 GW
Solar
50.0 GW
Total generation
-3.5 GW
Net import
105.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 94.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, catching dim diffuse light under a completely overcast sky. Brown coal 8.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the grey ceiling. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a ridge behind the solar fields, rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon where land meets a hazy grey sea. Natural gas 3.1 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall nestled between the coal station and the fields. Hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square chimney and conveyor belt, adjacent to the lignite complex. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a wood-clad biomass CHP plant with a modest smokestack and stacked timber logs nearby. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible along a river cutting through the foreground meadow. Time of day is 17:00 in late May — dusk is beginning: the sky is uniformly overcast with heavy grey clouds, but a faint warm orange-red glow suffuses the lower western horizon, casting long amber-tinted shadows across the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the air is thick, humid, almost pressing down. Temperature is mild at 20°C; vegetation is lush late-spring green, wildflowers in meadows, full-leafed deciduous trees. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing horizon and the brooding overcast sky. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, lattice and tubular towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation plumes, PV panel grid patterns. The composition evokes a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels, no human figures.