Solar leads at 24.4 GW under full overcast; gas, lignite, and hard coal fill the renewable gap with 4.1 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 40%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 10%
66%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
60.5 GW
Total generation
-4.1 GW
Net import
97.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
225
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.4 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky with no direct sunlight; natural gas 8.5 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting into the overcast; hard coal 5.9 GW sits beside them as a large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a tall chimney trailing grey smoke; wind onshore 8.2 GW is represented by a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is a modest biogas facility with green cylindrical digesters and a small stack with faint vapour; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with flowing water at the lower-right edge. The time is midday but the sky is a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of 100% stratus cloud—no blue, no sun disc, no shadows—rendered in brooding greys and muted silvers conveying high electricity prices. Temperature is cool spring at 10.6°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches mixed with fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, damp green grass. The atmosphere is thick and weighty, pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork visible in the cloud mass, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature and concrete texture, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into haze. No text, no labels, no people.