Solar at 31 GW under heavy overcast drives 90.7% renewable share with minimal thermal support.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 68%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.0 GW
Solar
45.8 GW
Total generation
-1.1 GW
Net import
9.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 210.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
65
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.0 GW dominates the scene: vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across gently rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but diffuse overcast sky. Wind onshore 5.0 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on distant green ridgelines, blades turning slowly in light breeze, occupying about one-tenth of the scene to the right. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a tiny row of turbines visible on a far hazy horizon line. Biomass 3.4 GW is rendered as a pair of compact industrial biogas plants with cylindrical digesters and short exhaust stacks releasing faint heat shimmer, placed in the mid-ground left. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast, set in the far left background, their concrete forms imposing but relatively small in the overall frame. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a single modern CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and minimal visible emissions, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a distant small stack barely visible. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a river with a low concrete weir and small turbine house in the foreground. The sky is 97% overcast — a uniform pale silver-grey ceiling of stratus clouds — but it is full midday brightness at 15:00 in June, so the light is strong, even, and shadowless. Temperature is a warm 22.5°C; lush green summer vegetation covers the fields between the solar arrays, with wildflowers and tall grasses. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every piece of technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, panel wiring, cooling tower geometry, CCGT heat recovery sections. No text, no labels.