Diffuse solar leads at 17.6 GW under full overcast; 13.9 GW net imports bridge a moderate consumption gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 45%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.6 GW
Solar
39.4 GW
Total generation
-13.9 GW
Net import
30.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 29.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, pearly grey sky; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the distant upper-right background as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines rising from a faintly visible North Sea horizon; wind onshore 3.7 GW stands as a modest row of lattice-towered three-blade turbines on a low ridge at centre-right; biomass 4.5 GW occupies the centre as a pair of industrial biomass plants with cylindrical silos and thin chimneys emitting pale steam; brown coal 3.7 GW fills the left foreground with two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes; natural gas 2.4 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit; hard coal 0.7 GW appears as a small gabled coal bunker with a single slim stack at far left; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a modest concrete dam and spillway at the far left edge beside a wooded valley. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, uniform stratocumulus — full 100% cloud cover — allowing only soft, directionless daylight at mid-morning; no sun disc visible, no shadows on the ground. The atmosphere is calm, slightly hazy, with a cool spring palette: bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to show pale green buds, last year's brown grass, and patches of early wildflowers. Temperature near 8°C gives a cool, damp quality to the air. The price is moderate, so the atmosphere feels stable, neither oppressive nor luminous — simply a working, quietly productive industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into misty distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.