Solar dominates at 35.2 GW under overcast skies; wind and thermal plants balance a near-equilibrium grid.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
8.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.2 GW
Solar
56.2 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
40.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 175.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
85
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.2 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but uniformly overcast white sky. Wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills at centre-left, their rotors barely turning in light air. Wind offshore 3.5 GW is suggested in the far background as a row of taller turbines along a misty horizon line. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, beside a conveyor system carrying dark lignite. Biomass 3.9 GW sits as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard just to the right of the cooling towers. Natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, placed between the coal plant and the wind turbines. Hard coal 1.1 GW appears as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single cooling tower further back on the left. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with cascading water visible at the lower-left edge of the scene. The lighting is full midday daylight at 13:00 in May — bright and even, with no direct sun visible, the entire sky a luminous blanket of 100% cloud cover casting soft, shadowless light across the landscape. Temperature is cool at 9.3 °C; vegetation is fresh spring green but restrained, grass slightly wind-flattened, trees in young leaf. The atmosphere is calm and balanced, neither oppressive nor dramatic, reflecting the moderate 40.3 EUR/MWh price. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective receding to a hazy horizon — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.