Solar leads at 20.9 GW under heavy overcast; low wind forces 22.9 GW of thermal generation and ~9.9 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 38%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 16%
58%
Renewable share
4.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.9 GW
Solar
54.4 GW
Total generation
-9.8 GW
Net import
110.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
82.0% / 45.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
285
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.9 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 grey-white sky; brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast; natural gas 8.7 GW appears as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls just left of centre; hard coal 5.5 GW is rendered as a traditional coal-fired station with a large rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke, positioned behind the gas plants; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a modest wood-clad power plant with a rounded storage silo and low steam vent nestled among trees at centre-right; wind onshore 3.0 GW is shown as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the far horizon above a glimpse of grey North Sea; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam with a thin cascade of white water in the far right background. The time is 09:00 on an April morning: full daylight but heavily overcast at 82% cloud cover, creating a flat, diffuse luminosity with no direct shadows and a low, oppressive steel-grey sky pressing down — reflecting the high 110 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is 11°C in spring: fresh green buds on deciduous trees, early wildflowers in the meadows between solar arrays, but the air feels cool and damp. Wind is nearly still — no motion in grasses, flags limp on poles. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth from foreground industrial detail to hazy distant ridgelines, dramatic tonal contrasts between the white steam plumes and the heavy grey sky. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, lattice transmission towers with catenary cables, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation drift. No text, no labels, no human figures.