Solar leads at 32.8 GW under overcast skies; weak wind and strong thermal dispatch drive imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.8 GW
Solar
56.7 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
100.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
90.0% / 180.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.8 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse light under heavy overcast; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud base, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 4.6 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer just left of centre; hard coal 2.6 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular chimney stack and coal hoppers behind the lignite complex; biomass 3.8 GW sits in the middle distance as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and low steam vents; wind onshore 2.7 GW appears as a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines on the distant right horizon, their rotors nearly still in the calm air; wind offshore 2.5 GW is suggested by tiny turbines barely visible on a flat grey sea at the far-right edge; hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam and reservoir nestled in a forested valley in the far left background. The sky is heavy, oppressive, layered in silver-grey and pewter clouds at 90% cover, with only weak diffuse brightness filtering through — a June mid-morning at 09:00 in central Germany with full daylight but no direct sun, muted green early-summer vegetation, lush grass and deciduous trees in full leaf at 14°C, the air perfectly still with no motion in branches or flags. The atmosphere feels weighty and close, evoking the elevated electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich muted colour palette of grey-greens, slate blues, ochres and umber, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower and exhaust stack, the composition arranged as a sweeping panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.