Diffuse solar leads at 17 GW under full overcast; coal and gas cover the 13.5 GW import gap alongside moderate wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 34%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
11.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.0 GW
Solar
50.4 GW
Total generation
-13.6 GW
Net import
126.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 16.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
230
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.0 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a uniformly grey, heavy overcast sky — panels gleam dully with diffuse light, no direct sun visible. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud base. Wind onshore 9.2 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across green but cool spring fields with fresh low vegetation. Natural gas 5.0 GW appears as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, positioned centre-left behind the coal station. Hard coal 3.6 GW is a single older power station with a tall brick chimney and coal conveyor belts, partially obscured by steam, to the far left. Biomass 4.3 GW is represented by several wood-chip-fired CHP facilities with small square stacks and timber storage yards nestled among the turbines. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the grey horizon where land meets an implied North Sea coast. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse in the right foreground near a cold, grey river. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, oppressive ceiling of stratocumulus in shades of grey and dull pewter, pressing down heavily to convey the high electricity price. The temperature is a cool 8.7°C: spring trees show early pale-green leaves, grass is bright but dew-wet, the atmosphere damp and still-wintry. Full mid-morning daylight illuminates the scene evenly with no shadows, a soft diffuse brightness. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's grid lines. The mood is industrious, sober, monumental. No text, no labels.