Diffuse solar at 35.9 GW dominates an overcast spring morning, aided by 13.3 GW wind, driving 3.2 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 55%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
13.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.9 GW
Solar
65.8 GW
Total generation
+3.2 GW
Net export
19.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 47.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.9 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting an overcast sky; wind onshore 8.7 GW rises behind them as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.6 GW appears on the far-left horizon as a line of offshore turbines emerging from haze above a distant grey sea; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the right background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting left in the wind; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad combined heat and power plant with a tall stack and wood-chip conveyors; natural gas 3.6 GW sits centre-right as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a conveyor belt and squat chimney emitting a faint grey wisp; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a winding river in the middle ground. The sky is uniformly overcast at 97% cloud cover, a heavy blanket of silver-grey stratus admitting only diffuse daylight appropriate for 10:00 AM in late April—no direct sun, no shadows, flat luminous light. Temperature is a cool 6.9 °C: bare branches on scattered birch and oak trees show only the earliest pale-green buds of spring; last year's brown grass and fresh green shoots mix on the ground. The low electricity price is conveyed through calm, open compositional space and soft atmospheric depth. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, muted colour palette of slate-blue, moss-green, and umber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective fading to grey at the horizon—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology: correct nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, cooling tower geometry, PV module framing. No text, no labels.