Diffuse solar leads at 27.4 GW under full overcast, with wind at 13.1 GW and coal at 8.8 GW filling remaining demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 47%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
58.3 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
86.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 123.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
149
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.4 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniform pearl-white overcast sky — no direct sunlight, only soft diffuse illumination consistent with full daytime at 10 AM. Wind onshore 8.7 GW occupies the right third of the composition as clusters of modern three-blade turbines on tall tubular towers rising from crop fields, rotors turning slowly in light 8 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 4.4 GW appears in the far right distance as a line of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey sea inlet. Brown coal 6.8 GW fills the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing heavy white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling, flanked by conveyor belts and open-pit mine terracing. Natural gas 3.3 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and smaller rectangular heat-recovery steam generator. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller conventional plant behind the gas facility, with a single square chimney trailing a thin grey plume. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack to the left of the solar fields. Hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete run-of-river dam visible along a tree-lined river in the lower left corner. The sky is entirely blanketed in layered stratocumulus — flat, heavy, unbroken, with no blue patches — creating a slightly oppressive, muted atmosphere reflecting the 86.6 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is lush early-summer green at 14°C, with wildflowers in meadow strips between panel rows. The lighting is even and shadowless, typical of bright overcast mid-morning. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.