Diffuse solar leads at 24.4 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and gas covering a 9.9 GW net import need.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 49%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
49.2 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
114.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 142.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
214
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a bright but uniformly overcast white-grey sky, panels reflecting diffuse silvery light. Brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes billowing upward into the heavy cloud layer, a sprawling lignite opencast mine visible behind them. Wind onshore 4.4 GW appears as a modest row of five three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-free tubular towers on a gentle ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light wind. Biomass 4.0 GW is depicted as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a tall rectangular stack and a stockpile of golden wood chips. Natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass plant. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional coal plant with a single square chimney and conveyor belts in the left middle distance. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway at the far right edge nestled in a wooded valley. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is hinted at as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. The time is 16:00 on an overcast May afternoon: full daylight but no direct sun, the sky is a heavy continuous blanket of 100% cloud cover, oppressive and thick, suggesting high electricity prices and atmospheric tension. The landscape is lush spring-green with fresh deciduous foliage at 17.7°C, fields of rapeseed in faint yellow visible between infrastructure. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. The mood is weighty, industrious, and measured. No text, no labels.