Solar leads at 28 GW under full overcast; 8.3 GW net imports bridge the gap to 58 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
85%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
49.7 GW
Total generation
-8.3 GW
Net import
88.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 49.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
105
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland, reflecting a pale white sky; wind onshore 5.6 GW appears as clusters of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on low hills in the mid-ground, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 3.5 GW is visible as a distant row of larger turbines on a hazy horizon above a faint coastal strip; brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left background as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; biomass 3.5 GW sits nearby as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber storage yard and a single squat smokestack; natural gas 2.3 GW is rendered as a compact modern CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete dam with a spillway in a wooded valley at far left; hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of white-grey stratus clouds — no blue sky visible — lit by full midday-to-afternoon diffuse daylight at 16:00 in June, bright but flat, casting almost no shadows. The atmosphere feels warm and humid at 23.6 °C; lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf line field edges; wildflowers dot meadow margins. The heavy cloud ceiling and elevated price create a subtly oppressive, pressing mood. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of muted greens, greys, and creams, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements — yet every energy technology is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, panel racking, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.