Solar leads at 34.7 GW with heavy thermal backup from lignite, gas, and coal under overcast spring skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 14%
66%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.7 GW
Solar
66.1 GW
Total generation
-0.3 GW
Net import
100.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 277.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
232
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.7 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat agricultural land, catching diffuse light under a mostly overcast sky with occasional brighter patches; brown coal 9.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey clouds; natural gas 8.6 GW appears centre-left as a modern combined-cycle gas turbine facility with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls with visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.5 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor infrastructure; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a modest chimney and stacked timber beside it, tucked to the right of the coal station; wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a low ridge in the right background, blades barely turning in light wind; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line far right; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a river in the mid-ground. Time is 10:00 AM mid-April: full daylight but heavily filtered through 84% cloud cover, producing a flat, bright but sunless illumination with muted shadows and a silvery-grey sky — occasional thin breaks let weak direct light through, casting faint highlights on the PV glass. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price; the air is cool at 7.6°C with early spring vegetation — bare branches beginning to bud, pale green grass, patches of brown earth between solar arrays. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic cloud textures — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic profiles, conveyor gantries. The composition balances industrial sublimity with pastoral quiet. No text, no labels.