Solar leads at 37.2 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas fill the gap as Germany net-imports 2.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 62%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
85%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.2 GW
Solar
60.0 GW
Total generation
-2.8 GW
Net import
60.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 123.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.2 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering over 60% of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky. Wind onshore 7.6 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on rolling green hills at the right, their rotors barely turning in light wind. Brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey ceiling. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical smokestack and adjacent wood-chip storage silos just left of centre. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed behind the solar field right of centre. Hydro 2.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir visible in a valley at the far right. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney stack emitting faint haze, tucked behind the brown coal towers. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant grey horizon line. Full midday daylight at noon in June but entirely diffused through 100% cloud cover — no direct sun, no shadows, a bright but flat pearl-white sky pressing down with moderate atmospheric weight. Temperature 13.6°C: lush green early-summer vegetation, cool damp meadows, wildflowers in grass. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.