Solar leads at 30.5 GW under heavy overcast; 6.9 GW net imports cover the gap between renewables and 59.8 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
52.9 GW
Total generation
-6.9 GW
Net import
60.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 69.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
116
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.5 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying well over half the composition; brown coal 4.6 GW appears as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising on the left background; natural gas 3.8 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with sleek exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, positioned left of centre; wind onshore 7.4 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a ridge in the right-middle ground, blades turning in moderate wind; biomass 3.6 GW is a wood-chip power station with a squat industrial chimney and timber storage yard in the mid-ground; hydro 1.7 GW shows as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house beside a green river in the right foreground; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller smokestack partially obscured behind the lignite plant; wind offshore 0.6 GW is hinted by distant turbines on a hazy flat horizon line at far right. Full afternoon daylight at 15:00 but the sky is a dense, unbroken ceiling of grey-white overcast at 98% cloud cover, with no direct sunlight, only a bright diffuse luminance casting soft shadowless light over everything. The landscape is lush mid-June green — tall grass, full-leafed deciduous trees, wildflowers — at a pleasant 21°C warmth. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and oppressive, reflecting a moderate electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich earth tones, luminous greens, precise engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower curve — with visible oil brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and the grandeur of a Caspar David Friedrich or Carl Blechen industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.