Solar leads at 34.8 GW under overcast skies; coal and gas fill residual load as wind remains modest.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.8 GW
Solar
61.7 GW
Total generation
-1.6 GW
Net import
94.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 309.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.8 GW dominates the scene as a vast sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffused midday light filtering through a heavy, pewter-grey overcast sky. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the cloud base. Hard coal 4.4 GW appears just right of the brown coal as a smaller coal-fired plant with tall rectangular chimneys and a conveyor belt carrying dark fuel. Natural gas 4.1 GW is rendered as a compact modern CCGT facility with sleek exhaust stacks and a single thin heat-shimmer plume, positioned between the coal plants and the solar field. Wind onshore 5.7 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers along a gentle ridge in the middle distance, their blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by two or three distant turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 4.2 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a rounded silo and low steam vent near the coal cluster. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible at the bottom-left corner beside a gentle river. The sky is 92% overcast — thick layered clouds in slate and pearl tones — but direct radiation breaks through gaps, casting pale shafts of light onto sections of the solar field. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers at field margins. Temperature around 15°C — comfortable, no heat haze, air feels cool and moist. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Full midday brightness despite cloud cover. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with hazy distant hills, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel junction box, every cooling tower's ribbed concrete shell. No text, no labels.