Overcast skies limit solar output while weak winds force heavy coal and gas dispatch, requiring ~15 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 40%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
64%
Renewable share
4.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.9 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
-14.9 GW
Net import
126.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 15.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
246
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their surfaces reflecting only the flat grey light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling; natural gas 6.7 GW appears as a group of modern compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller plumes, positioned centre-left; wind onshore 4.6 GW is rendered as a sparse line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest industrial facility with wood-chip storage silos and a single smokestack in the middle ground; hard coal 2.6 GW shows as a traditional power station with twin chimneys and conveyor belts behind the biomass plant; hydro 2.1 GW is depicted as a small concrete dam with water spilling gently in the far right background amid forested hills; wind offshore 0.2 GW is absent from the scene. The time is 08:00 on a June morning — full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, the sky a uniform heavy blanket of 99% cloud cover in tones of pewter and dull silver pressing down oppressively, conveying the weight of a 126.6 EUR/MWh electricity price. The temperature is a cool 11°C for June; the vegetation is lush deep green but weighted with moisture. The air feels still and humid, with almost no breeze stirring the grass. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich colour, visible brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.