Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate at 79% renewables, but persistent lignite and elevated prices mark a cloudy, cool May morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 29%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
79%
Renewable share
27.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.2 GW
Solar
65.5 GW
Total generation
+2.9 GW
Net export
112.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.8°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 8.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-but-cold spring fields, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind. Solar 19.2 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low ground-mount racks, their surfaces reflecting only a flat grey sky with no direct sunlight. Brown coal 7.3 GW fills the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting right in the wind, beside conveyor belts of dark brown fuel. Wind offshore 5.7 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a sliver of grey sea visible beyond coastal marshland. Biomass 4.0 GW shows as a timber-clad combined-heat-and-power plant with a single modest stack and woodchip storage silos in the left-centre middle ground. Natural gas 3.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a heat-recovery steam generator unit, positioned centre-left between the coal complex and the solar field. Hard coal 3.0 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower and a coal yard, adjacent to the brown coal station. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse at a stream in the lower-left foreground. Full daytime hour — 08:00 in May — but 98% cloud cover creates flat, heavy, uniformly grey overcast light with no shadows and no sun visible; the sky is oppressive and low-hanging, conveying the elevated 112 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a chilly 4.8 °C: spring vegetation is pale green but sparse, with bare patches; characters would wear jackets. Wind at 24 km/h bends grass, ripples puddles, and drives the cooling-tower steam plumes laterally. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich earthy tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic yet technically precise rendering of every turbine blade, every PV module frame, every rivet on the CCGT stack. No text, no labels.