Diffuse solar leads at 22.1 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and gas bridging a 6.5 GW net import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 54%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 15%
74%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.1 GW
Solar
40.7 GW
Total generation
-6.5 GW
Net import
81.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 22.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
183
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.1 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting flat grey light under a completely overcast sky; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the low cloud ceiling, beside open-pit lignite excavation terraces; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a group of wood-chip-fed industrial boiler facilities with moderate chimneys and conveyor belts in the middle-left ground; natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT power blocks with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; hydro 1.8 GW shows as a concrete dam and spillway built into a forested hillside in the far background left; wind onshore 1.5 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a few turbines visible on a far grey horizon line at the right edge; hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a single conventional coal plant with a square smokestack near the brown coal complex. The lighting is full daytime at 08:00 in June but entirely diffuse — no direct sun, no shadows, a flat pearl-grey sky pressing down with 100% cloud cover creating a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 81 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is cool at 10.9°C; early-summer vegetation is lush green but muted in the overcast light, with dew still visible on grass. The scene is composed as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour despite the grey palette, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with mist clinging to valleys. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV module grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. The mood is one of industrial grandeur under subdued skies. No text, no labels.