Overcast solar leads at 20.7 GW, but weak wind forces heavy coal and gas dispatch with 13.4 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
1.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.7 GW
Solar
48.2 GW
Total generation
-13.4 GW
Net import
131.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
288
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting uniform grey light under total overcast; brown coal 9.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky; natural gas 7.1 GW appears left of centre as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW stands behind the gas plants as a single large station with a prominent chimney and coal conveyor infrastructure; biomass 4.4 GW is represented centre-right as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with wood-chip storage silos and short stacks; wind onshore 1.3 GW appears as a few widely spaced three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house beside a river in the middle ground. Time is 08:00 in May — full overcast daylight, flat and shadowless, the sky a uniform blanket of iron-grey stratus clouds with no blue patches and no direct sunlight, temperature cool at 7°C so spring vegetation is fresh green but not lush. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, conveying the economic pressure of a 132 EUR/MWh price — the air is thick, muted, with a brooding weight over the industrial landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour in muted tones of grey, steel blue, olive green, and warm industrial ochre, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of scale and human smallness before nature and industry. No text, no labels.