Solar dominates at 32.5 GW under full overcast, complemented by 13.5 GW wind and persistent thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
76%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.5 GW
Solar
67.6 GW
Total generation
+0.6 GW
Net export
55.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 43.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.5 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse white light; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising vertically in still air; natural gas 5.8 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat-shimmer plumes just left of centre; wind onshore 7.9 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on rolling hills in the mid-ground right, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 5.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines barely visible on a grey horizon line beyond a river estuary; hard coal 3.0 GW appears as a single dark industrial plant with conveyor belts and a square chimney emitting grey smoke, tucked behind the lignite towers; biomass 4.4 GW is a modest timber-clad facility with a low broad smokestack near the solar fields; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete weir and turbine house along a river in the lower foreground. Full daylight at 10:00 but entirely overcast—the sky is a uniform, heavy blanket of grey-white stratus clouds with no blue visible, casting flat shadowless illumination across the landscape. Direct solar radiation is minimal so no sharp shadows fall anywhere. Temperature 8°C early spring: bare deciduous trees with just the first green buds, pale dormant grass, patches of mud. Low wind speed so turbine blades rotate gently and smoke plumes rise nearly vertical. The moderate electricity price gives a calm but weighty atmosphere—dense cloud pressing down yet no drama. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy grey distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every rivet on the cooling towers. No text, no labels.