Diffuse solar leads at 48.5 GW under full overcast, with 12.3 GW of thermal baseload and modest wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
82%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.5 GW
Solar
69.7 GW
Total generation
+69.7 GW
Net export
93.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
124
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat grey-white sky with no sun visible; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast ceiling; natural gas 3.7 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and thin vapour trails just left of centre; hard coal 2.9 GW is rendered as a single coal-fired station with a tall chimney and conveyor belt infrastructure beside the lignite towers; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with rounded storage silos and modest chimneys emitting pale smoke in the centre-left middle ground; wind onshore 0.9 GW is shown as a few distant three-blade turbines on a low ridge turning slowly, and wind offshore 1.9 GW as a faint row of larger offshore turbines barely visible on the far horizon; hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the lower left foreground with a river winding through the scene. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — heavy, uniform, oppressive grey-white clouds pressing low, no blue sky or sun disc anywhere, diffuse flat daylight at 9 AM in April. The atmosphere feels weighty and dense, reflecting the 93.8 EUR/MWh price — a thick brooding quality to the air. Temperature is cool at 9.4°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches on some trees, fresh pale-green buds on others, damp grass. Moderate wind bends the grass slightly. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich earthy colours, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and smokestack. No text, no labels.