Diffuse solar at 21.7 GW and 12.8 GW wind dominate under full overcast, with 4.7 GW net imports covering remaining demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 44%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
81%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.7 GW
Solar
49.2 GW
Total generation
-4.7 GW
Net import
7.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.8°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 5.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
141
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.7 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting grey-white diffuse light under total overcast; wind onshore 9.7 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered across rolling hills in the mid-ground, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible on the far-right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines emerging from a grey North Sea sliver; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left background as a large Lausitz-style lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling; hard coal 2.4 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal facility with a single tall chimney and rectangular boiler house trailing lighter grey exhaust; biomass 4.5 GW appears in the left mid-ground as a wood-chip-fed combined heat and power plant with a green-roofed industrial hall, small stack, and modest steam wisp; natural gas 1.2 GW is a compact single-unit CCGT facility with a slim silver exhaust stack and barely visible heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the lower-left foreground. TIME AND LIGHT: early afternoon in late March, full daylight but entirely diffuse—no shadows, no direct sun, flat even illumination under a 100% uniform grey stratus layer from horizon to zenith, sky a smooth gradient from pale pewter overhead to slightly brighter white-grey at the horizon. WEATHER: bare deciduous trees with only the first swelling buds, dormant brown grass, patches of old snow in shaded ditches, temperature near freezing visible as frost on metal railings, breath-mist near any human figures. PRICE MOOD: calm, open, spacious composition with generous sky—low electricity price conveyed through unhurried pastoral stillness. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric mist meets Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour in muted greys, ochres, and steel blues, visible confident brushwork, aerial perspective softening distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, and cooling tower fluting. No text, no labels, no human-made signage.