Solar leads at 27.3 GW under overcast skies, but weak wind forces heavy coal, gas dispatch and 6.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 13%
62%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.3 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
-6.5 GW
Net import
101.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 101.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
255
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.3 GW dominates the right half and centre-right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling spring farmland under a hazy, overcast sky with diffuse daylight filtering through layered grey-white clouds; natural gas 9.4 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the far left as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; hard coal 4.9 GW sits just left of centre as a dark industrial power station with conveyor belts and a tall chimney stack; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip facility with a modest plume; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and spillway in a valley in the distant left background; wind onshore 0.8 GW is a handful of barely turning three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors nearly still in the calm air; wind offshore 1.1 GW is faintly visible as a few turbines on the distant horizon line. The time is 9:00 AM in mid-April: full but muted daylight, no direct sun visible, the sky a uniform bright overcast pressing down on the landscape with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting elevated electricity prices. Spring vegetation is emerging—fresh pale-green grass, early leaf buds on deciduous trees, cool 11°C feel. Transmission lines on steel lattice towers cross the middle distance, symbolising interconnection. 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, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic compositional weight, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.