Solar leads at 21.1 GW under overcast skies, backed by 14.8 GW wind and 11.8 GW coal, with 3.2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 36%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
14.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
58.0 GW
Total generation
-3.2 GW
Net import
81.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
78.0% / 97.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
201
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.1 GW dominates the centre-right as an enormous field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a diffuse grey-white sky. Wind onshore 13.7 GW fills the far right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers marching across green spring hills, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.1 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines barely visible on a distant northern horizon. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, with open-pit mine terraces visible below. Natural gas 4.7 GW sits left of centre as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a dark-bricked power station with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts beside a coal stockpile, adjacent to the lignite complex. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and moderate steam outputs near the centre. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock built into a wooded hillside in the far background. Time is 10:00 AM in late May — full daylight but heavily overcast at 78% cloud cover, the sky a layered ceiling of pearl-grey and slate clouds with occasional brighter patches where the sun tries to break through, casting flat even illumination with minimal shadows. Temperature 16°C: fresh spring green on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow edges, lush grass. The atmosphere feels weighty and slightly oppressive, reflecting an 81.2 EUR/MWh price — a muted, heavy sky pressing down on the landscape. Direct solar radiation is low at 97 W/m², so no sharp sunbeams, only soft ambient light. Style: 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 cloud studies — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. The composition reads as a panoramic industrial-pastoral masterwork. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.