Wind and diffuse solar dominate a 72.6% renewable mix at 53.6 GW, exporting 4.7 GW under heavy overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 33%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
73%
Renewable share
15.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.8 GW
Solar
53.6 GW
Total generation
+4.7 GW
Net export
87.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 15.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
187
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.8 GW fills the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey-white light under deep overcast — no direct sun, no glint, just muted diffuse illumination. Wind onshore 10.7 GW and offshore 4.7 GW occupy the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, blades turning at moderate speed in gentle wind, some receding into hazy distance. Brown coal 6.3 GW dominates the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge seamlessly into the low grey cloud deck. Natural gas 5.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, situated left of centre. Hard coal 2.9 GW is rendered as a smaller power station with a tall square chimney and conveyor belts feeding a coal bunker, positioned behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a wood-clad industrial facility with a modest smokestack and stacked timber logs in the mid-ground. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-left corner. The sky is 97% overcast: a uniform heavy blanket of stratocumulus in tones of pewter and slate, pressing low over the landscape with no break of blue. It is full morning daylight — 08:00 in May — so the scene is bright but entirely diffuse, shadowless. The temperature is a cool 6.3°C: fresh spring vegetation is lush green but glistening with morning dew, bare branches still visible on some late-leafing trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 87 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, dense quality to the air. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with mist softening the distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every installation. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.