Solar leads at 34 GW under full overcast, with coal and gas firming a tight 1.9 GW net import balance.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 62%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.1 GW
Solar
55.3 GW
Total generation
-1.9 GW
Net import
81.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 13.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.1 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white-grey sky. Brown coal 4.8 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick pale steam plumes merging into the low clouds, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite bunkers. Wind onshore 4.6 GW appears as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle hills at centre-right, rotors turning lazily in light breeze. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a medium-scale plant with a squat smokestack and wood-chip storage silos at centre-left. Natural gas 2.7 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned behind the solar fields at right. Hard coal 2.4 GW shows as a traditional power station with twin chimneys and a coal yard at far left, slightly smaller than the lignite plant. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river dam at the far right edge beside a swollen spring river. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the distant hazy horizon line. Time is 3 PM full daylight but entirely diffuse — no shadows, no direct sun, a flat luminous white-grey cloud blanket pressing low over the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, subtly oppressive, matching high electricity prices. Spring vegetation: fresh bright green grass and emerging crops, birch and linden trees in young leaf, wildflowers beginning to bloom along field margins. Temperature around 12°C gives a cool dampness — slight mist clings in valley folds. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic yet contemplative mood. Every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, lattice tower details, PV module grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.