Diffuse solar leads at 18.5 GW but fading fast; brown coal and imports fill the 8.9 GW gap under full overcast.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 49%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 11%
84%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.5 GW
Solar
38.0 GW
Total generation
-8.9 GW
Net import
95.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only grey diffuse light under total overcast; brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud layer, adjacent conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible; onshore wind 7.7 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the middle distance, rotors barely turning in light wind; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with wood-chip silos and a single smokestack emitting pale exhaust, positioned left of centre; natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a clean exhaust stack and small vapour trail near the biomass plant; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming spillway at the bottom left edge; hard coal 0.5 GW is a small older power station with a single brick chimney barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is 100% overcast, heavy oppressive grey cloud ceiling pressing low — dusk at 17:00 in late May, an orange-red glow barely visible on the western horizon beneath thick clouds, the upper sky darkening to slate grey. Late-spring vegetation: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, rapeseed fields past bloom turning green-brown. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, humid air thickening the steam plumes. High-voltage transmission pylons recede toward the eastern horizon, symbolising import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich muted colour palette of grey, olive, rust, and fading amber, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.