Diffuse solar at 40.5 GW leads under full overcast, with brown coal and gas providing 9.6 GW of thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
81%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.5 GW
Solar
63.5 GW
Total generation
+3.8 GW
Net export
58.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 9.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
141
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition; brown coal 6.7 GW appears as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers on the left horizon, thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky; wind onshore 4.0 GW shown as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on gentle hills in the mid-ground, blades barely turning in the light breeze; biomass 4.2 GW rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack amid trees; natural gas 2.9 GW depicted as a compact CCGT plant with slim exhaust stacks and a modest heat shimmer; hard coal 2.7 GW as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts; wind offshore 1.0 GW suggested by tiny turbines on a distant hazy horizon line implying the North Sea; hydro 1.6 GW as a concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley on the far right. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, uniform, heavy pearl-grey ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sunlight, yet the scene is lit by bright diffuse midday light consistent with 13:00 in May. The landscape shows spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, and early wildflowers at roughly 12°C — cool spring atmosphere, no heat haze. The moderate electricity price of 58.7 EUR/MWh is evoked by a slightly oppressive, weighty atmosphere — the clouds feel dense and low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and industrial detail. No text, no labels, no human figures.