Diffuse solar leads at 21 GW under full overcast; low wind and 6.4 GW net imports sustain morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 51%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.0 GW
Solar
41.4 GW
Total generation
-6.4 GW
Net import
90.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
144
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, even, milky-white overcast sky with no visible sun — diffuse light only; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey ceiling; wind onshore 4.7 GW appears as a modest line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in negligible wind; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage yard just left of centre; natural gas 2.3 GW shows as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, placed between the coal towers and the solar fields; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a green river in the middle distance; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on the far horizon where a grey sea meets the grey sky; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney near the lignite complex. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover, heavy and low, pressing down with an oppressive weight reflecting the 90 EUR/MWh price — no blue sky, no direct sunlight, yet full diffuse daytime brightness consistent with 08:00 on a June morning. Temperature of 20.6 °C is conveyed through lush, deep-green deciduous trees in full summer foliage and tall grass. The atmosphere is humid, slightly hazy. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV module gridlines, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust detail. The composition feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.