Solar at 35.5 GW dominates under full overcast; brown coal provides 5.7 GW baseload as renewables reach 84.5%.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 62%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
84%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.5 GW
Solar
57.3 GW
Total generation
+0.0 GW
Net export
35.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 25.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.5 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields and rooftop arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; wind onshore 6.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on distant ridges, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a far grey-blue horizon line at far right; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and single smokestack amid trees at centre-left; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the coal plant; hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small concrete dam with water cascading into a green valley at lower right; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller power station with a rectangular stack beside the lignite towers. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, uniform blanket of pale grey-white clouds — no blue sky, no direct sun — but the scene is fully lit by bright diffuse daylight consistent with 15:00 in late May. The light is soft and shadowless, evenly illuminating the landscape. Spring vegetation is lush — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, rapeseed fields with fading yellow blooms, fresh grass. Temperature is mild at 19°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, not oppressive, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy depth toward the industrial background — but with meticulous technical accuracy in rendering each energy technology: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, lattice and tubular towers, PV panel grid lines, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, steam thermodynamics. The composition feels monumental yet serene, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.