Solar leads at 32 GW under heavy overcast, supported by 15 GW wind and thermal balancing, with 3.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
80%
Renewable share
15.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.0 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+3.4 GW
Net export
63.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.0°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 166.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
134
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.0 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a pale, diffused daylight; wind onshore 11.2 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers receding into misty distance across rolling green spring fields; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines barely visible through haze above a grey North Sea sliver; natural gas 6.2 GW occupies the left-centre as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes; brown coal 4.5 GW stands in the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy grey-white steam columns rising into the overcast; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single smokestack and conveyor belt beside a dark coal heap, positioned behind the gas plant; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and modest chimney emitting faint vapour, tucked between the solar fields and the thermal plants; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam and spillway visible in a valley in the distant left background. The sky is almost entirely covered by a thick, uniform layer of grey stratus cloud at 98% cover, yet it is full mid-morning daylight — bright but flat and shadowless, the diffuse light giving everything a silvery luminosity. The temperature is 5°C: early spring, trees just beginning to bud with pale green, patches of last frost on shaded ground, cool damp atmosphere. Light wind barely stirs the grass. The mood is weighty but not oppressive — a moderate electricity price rendered as a sky that presses down but does not threaten storm. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with receding layers of mist, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, warm earth tones in the foreground giving way to cool blue-greys in the distance. No text, no labels.