Overcast skies limit solar to diffuse output; brown coal and net imports fill a 12.8 GW generation gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 33%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.0 GW
Solar
48.1 GW
Total generation
-12.8 GW
Net import
126.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 59.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.0 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky, their surfaces reflecting diffuse light without any direct sunshine. Wind onshore 7.9 GW appears as rows of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles standing across rolling green hills in the right background, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 5.2 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling, adjacent open-pit mine terraces visible. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact modern CCGT plant with twin cylindrical exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall smokestack behind the gas plant. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with silver cylindrical digesters and short stacks near the solar fields. Hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river dam with green water visible in the mid-ground valley. Time is 08:00 full daylight but entirely diffuse — no shadows, no sun disc, a heavy uniform cloud layer from horizon to horizon creating a flat, oppressive, pearl-grey atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 11°C: lush early-summer green vegetation but with morning dew and a damp chill visible in mist near the river. The landscape is central German — gentle hills, mixed deciduous forest edges, agricultural fields. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines run across the scene connecting all facilities. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich but muted colour palette of grey, moss-green, and steel-blue, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine blade, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. The mood is weighty and contemplative, an industrial sublime. No text, no labels.