Solar at 26.5 GW and wind at 17.3 GW dominate under overcast skies, with brown coal holding 7.5 GW baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 42%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.5 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
-0.6 GW
Net import
94.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 240.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.5 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse daylight. Wind onshore 14.8 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall cylindrical stack and wood-chip storage silos, set behind hedgerows left of centre. Natural gas 3.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and a visible heat-recovery unit, placed between the coal plant and the wind turbines. Hard coal 2.8 GW shows as a smaller power station with conveyor belts and a dark coal stockpile, adjacent to the brown coal complex. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is suggested on the far horizon as a faint line of turbines barely visible through haze. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure beside a river winding through the lower-left corner. The sky is 98% overcast with a thick, heavy, uniform grey cloud layer — oppressive and low-hanging, suggesting the elevated electricity price — yet enough light filters through to illuminate the landscape in soft, flat, shadowless daylight consistent with 10:00 AM. The temperature of 15.8 °C is reflected in lush green early-summer vegetation, fresh foliage on deciduous trees, and wildflowers in meadow strips between solar arrays. The moderate wind at 20.8 km/h animates tall grass, bends young trees slightly, and drives the turbine blades at visible speed. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground and horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The mood is contemplative and weighty, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.