Overcast solar dominates at 29 GW, but full cloud cover and light wind require 11.9 GW thermal and net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 56%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.0 GW
Solar
51.7 GW
Total generation
-7.8 GW
Net import
102.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 46.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
166
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey overcast sky with no direct sunlight; brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising heavily into the low clouds; wind onshore 4.8 GW appears as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the middle distance, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting thin pale smoke, positioned left of centre; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with polished exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer, nestled between the coal towers and the biomass plant; hard coal 2.7 GW is depicted as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall rectangular stack and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam with a narrow waterfall in the far background valley; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a distant misty horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, uniform stratiform cloud at low altitude, creating an oppressive, heavy atmosphere consistent with a high electricity price — the light is fully diffuse daytime at 15:00, bright but shadowless, with a slightly yellowish-grey cast. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy. Temperature around 16°C — no heat haze, air feels cool and damp. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic industrial sublime — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.