Solar leads at 36.5 GW under heavy overcast; coal and gas fill a 2.6 GW net import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.5 GW
Solar
58.2 GW
Total generation
-2.6 GW
Net import
54.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 43.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
121
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV arrays stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse daylight under a completely overcast sky. Brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling. Natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls just left of centre. Hard coal 1.9 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and stockpile visible beside the brown coal complex. Wind onshore 4.1 GW is a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle green hills behind the solar fields, their rotors barely turning in near-still air. Wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard near the centre. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock on a wooded hillside at the far right edge. The sky is a uniform blanket of thick stratiform cloud at 98% cover, coloured pewter and dove-grey, with no visible sun disk but bright diffuse midday light consistent with 14:00 in April; the landscape is lit evenly without shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees, a few wildflowers. Temperature of 17°C gives a mild, slightly humid atmosphere with soft haze along the valley floor. The day-ahead price of 54 EUR/MWh is suggested by a subtly oppressive weight to the cloud layer pressing down on the scene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich, layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.