Diffuse solar (28.6 GW) and wind (14.4 GW) dominate under heavy overcast; brown coal and net imports close the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
81%
Renewable share
14.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.6 GW
Solar
59.6 GW
Total generation
-2.6 GW
Net import
64.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 23.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
140
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.6 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniform silvery-grey overcast sky — no direct sunlight, only diffuse illumination. Wind onshore 11.7 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind, spanning from centre-left to far right. Wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the hazy horizon at far right. Brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left third as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Biomass 4.0 GW sits as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and short stacks with faint exhaust, positioned left of centre behind the solar fields. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed between the coal complex and the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a rectangular boiler house and a single square chimney, partially obscured behind the gas plant at far left. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small river weir and turbine house visible in the left foreground. The sky is a heavy, unbroken blanket of 98% stratiform cloud in tones of pewter, slate, and dull silver — no blue patches, no sun disc visible — casting flat, shadowless midday daylight across the entire scene. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, young wheat in fields, birch and linden trees in full new leaf. Temperature mild at 15°C, figures in light jackets near the solar arrays. The atmosphere feels slightly oppressive and dense, hinting at the 64 EUR/MWh price. 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 aerial perspective with haze softening distant turbines. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor pitch mechanisms, PV module junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. The painting conveys monumental scale and quiet industrial grandeur under an indifferent overcast sky. No text, no labels.