Solar leads at 22 GW under overcast skies; 11.5 GW net imports bridge the gap to 54 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 52%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.0 GW
Solar
42.5 GW
Total generation
-11.5 GW
Net import
22.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 49.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
110
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears in the distant background right as a row of tall three-blade turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon; wind onshore 3.1 GW stands as a smaller cluster of lattice-towered turbines on a ridge at mid-left; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a tall stack emitting thin white exhaust and woodchip storage silos at the left foreground; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 2.2 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; hard coal 0.6 GW is a small dark stack barely visible behind the gas plant; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in a valley at far right. The time is 11:00 AM on an April day — full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, the sky a flat 100% cloud ceiling in pale grey-white tones, no shadows on the ground. Temperature is cool at 9°C: early spring vegetation with fresh pale-green buds on birch and beech trees, patches of last brown winter grass. Wind is light at 6.6 km/h — turbine blades turn slowly, steam plumes rise nearly vertically. The moderate electricity price evokes a calm, unoppressive atmosphere. High-voltage transmission lines cross the scene, subtly hinting at import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with soft depth — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower parabolic geometry, and CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.