Solar leads at 25.3 GW under full overcast; 9.4 GW net imports bridge high summer demand at 102.6 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
77%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.3 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
-9.4 GW
Net import
102.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.4°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 66.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
154
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.3 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, reflecting a pale white-grey sky; brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 4.2 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer just left of centre; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial plant with a modest smokestack amid stacked wood-chip piles in the left-centre foreground; hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a single large coal plant with conveyor belts and a rectangular cooling tower beside the lignite station; wind onshore 6.2 GW fills the distant right horizon as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.3 GW is glimpsed as tiny turbines on the far-right horizon edge suggesting the North Sea; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-right foreground. The sky is entirely overcast — a thick, oppressive ceiling of uniform grey-white stratus at 100% cloud cover — with diffuse daylight at 16:00 in June, bright but shadowless, giving the landscape a flat, heavy luminosity. Summer vegetation is lush green but slightly wilted in the 24°C warmth. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive, haze thickening toward the horizon. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.