Diffuse solar leads at 29.7 GW under full overcast; weak wind and persistent coal and gas fill the remaining demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 54%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.7 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
-2.7 GW
Net import
81.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 27.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.7 GW dominates the centre and right side of the canvas as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniform white overcast sky. Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low clouds. Natural gas 4.3 GW appears as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, placed just right of the cooling towers. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a corrugated steel hall, conveyor belt, and a modest stack trailing pale smoke. Wind onshore 3.7 GW appears as a short row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 3.2 GW is glimpsed on the far horizon as silhouettes of offshore turbines through haze. Hard coal 2.6 GW stands as a single large boiler house with a tall rectangular chimney near the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible in a valley stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is a uniform blanket of 100% cloud cover at mid-morning, providing flat diffuse daylight with no shadows — bright but colourless, 10:00 AM May lighting. The temperature is cool at 8.9°C; spring foliage is fresh pale green on birch and beech trees, some still unfurling. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a leaden ceiling pressing down on the landscape, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV cell grid line — yet suffused with the brooding grandeur of Caspar David Friedrich's industrial sublime. No text, no labels.