Diffuse solar leads at 29.3 GW under full overcast, with 20.1 GW fossil backup and 4.1 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 50%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
66%
Renewable share
3.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.3 GW
Solar
59.0 GW
Total generation
-4.0 GW
Net import
115.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 25.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
234
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.3 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a dull pewter sky rather than direct sunlight. Brown coal 9.1 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast, alongside conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling power station. Natural gas 7.2 GW appears in the left-centre as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the gas plants as a single large coal-fired station with a rectangular chimney and coal stockpile. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack amid a small stand of managed woodland. Wind onshore 2.6 GW appears as a short row of three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the far horizon. Hydro 1.5 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir visible along a small river cutting through the middle ground. The time is 09:00 in May — full diffuse daylight, but the sky is a uniform, oppressive blanket of 99% cloud cover with no blue visible, casting flat shadowless light across the entire scene. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressurised, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. Temperature near 10°C: spring vegetation is fresh and green but subdued under the grey light; budding trees, damp meadows, cool moist air. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective pushing the cooling towers into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower reinforcement rib. No text, no labels.