Diffuse solar leads at 19.8 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and net imports covering the remaining demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 53%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 17%
74%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.8 GW
Solar
37.6 GW
Total generation
-7.5 GW
Net import
90.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
190
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their surfaces reflecting a pale diffuse grey-white light; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast; biomass 4.1 GW appears as several mid-sized industrial plants with timber yards and short chimneys trailing thin smoke, positioned centre-left; wind onshore 2.2 GW is represented by a sparse row of three-blade turbines on distant hills, blades turning slowly; natural gas 2.1 GW sits as a pair of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat haze, near the brown coal complex; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete dam and penstock structure on a wooded hillside at far right; hard coal 1.1 GW shows as a single dark-brick power station with conveyor belts and a square chimney; wind offshore 0.2 GW is barely visible as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant flat horizon line. The sky is entirely covered by a thick uniform layer of grey stratus cloud at 08:00 morning daylight — no sun disc visible, flat diffuse illumination, oppressive heavy atmosphere suggesting high electricity prices. Late May vegetation: lush bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field edges, 16°C mild air with no frost. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich muted colour palette of sage greens, slate greys, and warm industrial ochres, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.