Solar leads at 14.4 GW under overcast skies, but 21.8 GW net imports needed as evening demand peaks.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 38%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 15%
71%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.4 GW
Solar
38.1 GW
Total generation
-21.8 GW
Net import
127.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 141.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
200
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 14.4 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green summer hills, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey light; brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, alongside conveyor belts and open-pit terraces; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the centre-left as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning moderately in the breeze; natural gas 3.9 GW appears centre-right as compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW shown as a mid-sized industrial plant with a domed wood-chip silo and short chimney releasing pale vapour; hydro 2.0 GW depicted as a concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a forested valley in the middle distance; hard coal 1.2 GW as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower near the lignite complex; wind offshore 0.5 GW barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon line suggesting the North Sea coast. The sky is entirely overcast at 100 percent cloud cover, heavy and oppressive, a uniform ceiling of warm grey pressing down — consistent with the high electricity price — but the lower western horizon glows with a band of deep amber and orange-red light from the setting dusk sun at 18:00 Berlin time, casting long warm shadows eastward across the landscape. Temperature is a mild 21.8°C; vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grass, full-canopy deciduous trees, wildflowers. The atmosphere is humid and still-warm. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro between the glowing dusk horizon and the heavy grey sky above. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves with condensation drift, CCGT heat recovery steam generators. The painting evokes the sublime tension between nature and industry. No text, no labels.