Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate, but full overcast and 3.7 GW net imports keep prices elevated.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 32%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
22.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.7 GW
Solar
55.8 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
96.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a rolling central German plateau, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; solar 17.7 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on flat fields, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under total overcast; brown coal 4.9 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes merging into the low cloud base, beside conveyor belts and a lignite pit; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a rectangular stack trailing pale exhaust; wind offshore 3.0 GW is glimpsed on a distant horizon strip as a tight row of turbines above a faint grey sea line; natural gas 2.5 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and clean lines just left of centre; hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with silos and a dark chimney emitting thin grey smoke beside the lignite complex; hydro 1.4 GW is a modest dam and penstock visible in a small valley at far right. TIME AND LIGHT: 15:00 mid-afternoon daylight, yet the sky is uniformly 100% overcast in heavy, low stratocumulus—no sun disk visible, flat diffuse illumination, muted colours, no shadows. Temperature 8°C in May: spring vegetation is fresh green but sparse, grass still short, a few bare-branched trees mixed with budding ones, patches of cool dampness on the ground. ATMOSPHERE: the air feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price—low clouds press down toward the cooling towers, merging with steam, creating a claustrophobic ceiling. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich, sombre colour palette of slate grey, sage green, and sepia, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower shell texture, and CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.