Diffuse solar leads at 20.9 GW under full overcast, with 16.9 GW of thermal generation firming a low-wind morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 44%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
64%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.9 GW
Solar
47.3 GW
Total generation
+0.8 GW
Net export
107.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 20.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
256
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.9 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniformly grey sky with no direct sunlight. Brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast. Natural gas 4.6 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour wisps, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 3.5 GW is rendered as a gritty coal-fired station with a prominent chimney and conveyor belt, just behind the gas units. Biomass 4.5 GW is shown as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a rounded silo and thin flue stack, tucked between the solar field and the fossil plants. Wind onshore 2.8 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a low ridge at the far right, blades barely turning in still air. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a grey horizon line at the far right edge. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible in a stream in the foreground. The sky is entirely overcast, heavy dove-grey clouds pressing low, casting flat diffuse daylight appropriate for 08:00 in May—no sun disk visible, no shadows, an oppressive high-price atmosphere. Temperature is cool at 4.6 °C: early spring vegetation is sparse, grass pale green, bare branches on scattered trees, patches of frost lingering in hollows. The landscape is northern German lowland—flat, open, stretching to a hazy industrial horizon. 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 impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance—but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.