Solar leads at 19.9 GW under overcast skies; coal and wind fill midday demand with 103 EUR/MWh pricing.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 34%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
68%
Renewable share
14.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
58.8 GW
Total generation
-4.2 GW
Net import
103.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 74.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat central German farmland, their surfaces reflecting a uniform white-grey overcast sky — no direct sunlight, completely clouded; wind onshore 10.9 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in visible wind bending the early-spring grass; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a row of taller turbines on the far horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting sideways in the wind, beside conveyor belts and lignite bunkers; natural gas 5.8 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.8 GW appears as a single large power station with rectangular boiler house and a tall chimney with faint grey exhaust; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a wood-clad CHP plant with a modest stack and a pile of wood chips beside it; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river cutting through the scene. Full midday daylight at 11:00 but entirely diffused — no shadows, a heavy 100% overcast ceiling pressing low, giving an oppressive leaden atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature near 10°C: early spring vegetation, bare deciduous trees just showing first pale-green buds, brown-green fields. The sky is a thick, unbroken blanket of stratiform cloud from horizon to horizon, grey-white and heavy. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower flute, every PV cell grid line — evoking Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism. No text, no labels.