Solar dominates at 29.4 GW under heavy overcast; mild oversupply drives exports and a 9.7 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 51%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
11.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.4 GW
Solar
58.2 GW
Total generation
+3.6 GW
Net export
9.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 120.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
151
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.4 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching flat diffuse midday light under a heavy overcast sky. Wind onshore 7.7 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-section towers scattered across low hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.5 GW is suggested by a row of turbines visible through haze on a far horizon line. Brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as a lignite power station complex with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey cloud ceiling. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest stack releasing thin pale exhaust, set among bare-branched deciduous trees at the left-centre. Natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a visible heat recovery unit, positioned behind the solar fields. Hard coal 2.1 GW shows as a smaller power station with a single cooling tower and coal conveyor belt, partially obscured by the lignite complex. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a grey-green river cutting through the foreground. The sky is uniformly overcast at 92% cloud cover, bright grey-white with no direct sun visible, yet the scene is fully lit with soft, shadowless midday illumination typical of a heavily clouded March noon. Temperature is 5.1°C: early spring vegetation shows brown and pale green dormant grass, bare branches with the faintest hint of budding, patches of old snow in shadowed hollows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price — no oppressive haze, just a quiet expansive industrial landscape under a peaceful pewter sky. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich tonal variation, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth in the Caspar David Friedrich tradition — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete form. No text, no labels.