Overcast solar leads at 17.4 GW, but weak wind and 33 °C heat drive 14.6 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
70%
Renewable share
5.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.4 GW
Solar
40.0 GW
Total generation
-14.5 GW
Net import
129.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.2°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 405.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
208
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Furnace Hour
Image prompt
Solar 17.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across parched golden farmland under a completely overcast, hazy white-grey sky; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy clouds; natural gas 3.9 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks and shimmering heat haze; biomass 3.6 GW is a mid-ground facility with a wood-chip storage dome and low chimneys trailing thin smoke; wind onshore 3.7 GW shows as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly motionless in the still air; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a few tiny turbines on a far horizon line; hard coal 2.4 GW is a single smaller power station with rectangular cooling towers beside a coal yard; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway in the far right middle ground. The lighting is late-evening dusk at 18:00 in June — the sun is still above the horizon but completely hidden by thick overcast, casting a flat, diffuse, warm-white light with no shadows; the lower sky near the horizon shows a faint amber-orange glow filtered through cloud. The atmosphere is oppressively heavy and humid, heat-haze distorting the air above roads and rooftops, reflecting the 33 °C temperature and 129.7 EUR/MWh price tension. Vegetation is full summer green but stressed and wilted. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower fluting, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.