Solar leads at 32.1 GW under full overcast; brown coal and imports cover the 5.2 GW generation shortfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
79%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.1 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
-5.2 GW
Net import
96.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 96.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
155
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green hills, their surfaces reflecting a flat white overcast sky. Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the grey ceiling. Wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with tubular steel towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a woodchip storage dome and a single smokestack trailing thin grey exhaust. Natural gas 2.9 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a prominent exhaust stack and smaller rectangular heat recovery units beside a canal. Hard coal 2.7 GW appears as a traditional coal power station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts feeding from a dark coal pile. Hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a concrete run-of-river dam in the lower-left foreground with white water cascading through spillways. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible on the far horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes above a faintly visible North Sea coastline. The time is 14:00 on a May afternoon: full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, the sky a uniform blanket of solid cloud from horizon to zenith in shades of white and pale grey, pressing down with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The landscape is lush mid-spring — fresh green deciduous foliage, rapeseed fields in bright yellow, dandelions dotting meadows. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C, the air slightly humid. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour palette, visible expressive brushwork, masterful atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet every energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, lattice and tubular towers, PV module grid lines, cooling tower parabolic concrete shells, CCGT exhaust geometry. The composition feels monumental, an industrial sublime panorama. No text, no labels.