Solar (29.7 GW) and onshore wind (18.0 GW) dominate under full overcast, with 3.1 GW net export and persistent thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
18.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.7 GW
Solar
65.1 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
71.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.7 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green spring farmland, their surfaces reflecting a diffuse silvery-white sky; onshore wind 18.0 GW fills the mid-ground across the centre and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the overcast; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip power plant with a tall corrugated metal stack and log storage yards just left of centre; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller coal station with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; hydro 1.5 GW is depicted as a concrete dam and spillway visible in a distant valley on the far right; offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely suggested as a faint line of tiny turbines on a grey horizon. The sky is entirely covered by a thick, oppressive blanket of low stratiform cloud at 100% cover, uniformly pale grey-white with no blue patches, lit from above by the midday May sun that creates bright diffuse daylight but casts no shadows. The air feels heavy and damp at 11°C—spring vegetation is lush and green but muted in colour. The atmosphere conveys moderate price pressure through a slightly hazy, warm-toned heaviness to the overcast. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic industrial sublime—with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and gas-turbine exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.