Overcast solar dominates at 23.3 GW but 13.2 GW net imports needed as weak wind and high demand lift prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 47%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 14%
72%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.3 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
-13.2 GW
Net import
109.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
195
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland under a flat, completely overcast white-grey sky; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy cloud ceiling; natural gas 5.3 GW appears as two compact CCGT power stations with tall narrow exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer positioned centre-left; wind onshore 5.7 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on low hills in the centre-right middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible as a few tiny turbines on a grey North Sea horizon at far left; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and single smokestack in the centre; hydro 1.7 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse along a river in the right foreground; hard coal 1.9 GW is a single coal plant with rectangular cooling tower and coal conveyors at far left behind the lignite towers. The lighting is full daytime but entirely diffuse with no shadows and no sun disc visible, the sky a uniform oppressive blanket of dense stratus clouds pressing down heavily, conveying a sense of atmospheric weight befitting the high electricity price. Mid-June vegetation is lush bright green but muted under the flat light. Temperature is cool at 12°C so there is a slight morning mist lingering in the river valley. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.