Solar leads at 27.7 GW under heavy overcast; weak wind and 6.8 GW net imports drive prices above 105 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 52%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.7 GW
Solar
53.3 GW
Total generation
-6.8 GW
Net import
105.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 125.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.7 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse grey-white light; brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, adjacent conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible; hard coal 5.5 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with rectangular chimney stacks and dark smoke slightly left of centre behind the solar field; natural gas 4.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with sleek single exhaust stacks and a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plants; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a short stack and pale vapour near the right background; wind onshore 1.4 GW shows a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.2 GW suggested by a faint line of turbines on the far horizon; hydro 1.3 GW depicted as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a stream in the foreground. Time is 4 PM on an April afternoon: full but heavily muted daylight under a thick 93% overcast ceiling — sky is a uniform, oppressive pale grey with no blue visible, light is flat and shadowless, creating a heavy, expensive-feeling atmosphere. Temperature is 10°C — early spring: bare deciduous branches beginning to show the faintest green buds, last year's brown grass mixing with emerging green shoots. Almost no wind: flags hang limp, grass is still, smoke rises vertically from stacks. 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 with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers, dramatic compositional depth from foreground stream through mid-ground solar panels to background industrial skyline. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic profiles, coal conveyor gantries. The mood is contemplative and weighty — an industrial pastoral under a low, pressing sky. No text, no labels.