Overcast solar leads at 32.2 GW but full cloud cover and light winds leave 5.2 GW net import needed.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
76%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.2 GW
Solar
57.7 GW
Total generation
-5.1 GW
Net import
90.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 79.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the canvas from centre to right; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-free tubular towers along a ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly; natural gas 5.5 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat-shimmer plumes in the left-centre; hard coal 2.3 GW sits as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt beside the brown coal complex; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-fired CHP plants with squat chimneys and woodchip piles in the middle distance; hydro 2.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a winding river in the foreground valley. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform blanket of heavy, layered stratus in tones of pewter, ash-grey, and dull silver, pressing low over the landscape with no blue visible, creating a diffuse, shadowless 10:00 AM June daylight. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the 90.5 EUR/MWh price — humid air, muted colours, a sense of weight. Temperature 12.9°C in June shows as lush green grass and full deciduous foliage but with a cool dampness: dew still lingering on surfaces, no heat haze. Wind at 8.3 km/h barely stirs the grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered aerial perspective, the industrial structures rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy yet integrated into the moody landscape tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen. No text, no labels.