Solar leads at 16.7 GW under overcast skies, but a 15.5 GW net import covers the late-afternoon demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 39%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
8.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.7 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
-15.4 GW
Net import
125.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 136.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
197
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hillsides under a uniformly overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting dull pewter light. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling, adjacent to conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Wind onshore 7.1 GW fills the centre-left as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind across rolling farmland. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall exhaust stack and wood-chip storage dome. Natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-right. Hydro 2.0 GW shows as a concrete dam and penstock in a forested valley in the far background. Hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower near the lignite complex. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon where land meets a sliver of grey sea. The sky is entirely overcast with thick, heavy stratiform clouds pressing low, creating an oppressive, high-price atmosphere. Lighting corresponds to 17:00 in June: late-afternoon dusk beginning, a faint warm orange-red glow along the lower western horizon bleeding through the cloud base, while the upper sky is darkening grey. Temperature is mild at 17°C; vegetation is lush early-summer green with full deciduous canopies. The overall mood is weighty and industrial yet not apocalyptic. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.