Overcast skies limit solar while coal, gas, and imports bridge a 17.8 GW gap to meet 64 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 29%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
63%
Renewable share
10.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.4 GW
Solar
46.2 GW
Total generation
-17.8 GW
Net import
136.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
257
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a sprawling lignite complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into a heavy grey sky; hard coal 3.7 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as two smaller cooling towers and a coal conveyor belt with dark stockpiles; natural gas 5.3 GW occupies the centre-left as three compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; biomass 4.4 GW appears centre as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with cylindrical wood-chip silos and short chimneys releasing pale smoke; solar 13.4 GW spans the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull grey reflecting no sunlight under total overcast; wind onshore 8.6 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning moderately in the breeze across rolling green spring meadows; wind offshore 1.5 GW appears in the far-right background as a small cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea sliver; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam with white water cascading, nestled in a valley at far right. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, oppressive stratiform cloud with no break — uniform cement-grey from horizon to zenith — conveying the high electricity price as atmospheric weight and tension. Lighting is full diffuse daytime at 09:00 in May, soft and shadowless, with cool blue-grey tones. Temperature near 9°C: spring vegetation is fresh green but trees not fully leafed, some bare branches, dew on grass. Wind at 13 km/h bends the grass gently. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial precision — rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.