Solar leads at 20.6 GW despite overcast skies; near-zero wind forces heavy coal, gas, and 17.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 45%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
62%
Renewable share
1.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.6 GW
Solar
45.6 GW
Total generation
-17.7 GW
Net import
126.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 16.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.6 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a uniformly overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the low ceiling of clouds; natural gas 6.9 GW appears as a group of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hard coal 3.4 GW stands as a smaller coal-fired plant with a tall chimney and conveyor belt feeding a dark fuel pile; biomass 4.6 GW is represented by a modest wood-chip-fueled plant with a low rectangular building and gentle smoke; wind onshore 1.6 GW appears as a small row of modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors completely still; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a shallow valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.1 GW is a single barely visible turbine silhouette on the far horizon. The time is 08:00 in late April — full daylight but entirely diffused through 100% cloud cover, the sky a flat, heavy, oppressive blanket of pale grey with no blue patches and no visible sun, creating a shadowless, muted illumination across the landscape. The temperature is near freezing: bare branches on scattered trees, frost lingering on grass, breath-like wisps of condensation around machinery. The air is perfectly still — no motion in flags, no ripple in puddles, no movement in the turbine blades. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, weighted by the thick unbroken clouds pressing down. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour in muted earth tones and steel greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective lending depth to the industrial panorama, dramatic Romantic mood conveyed through the oppressive sky and the contrast between silent wind turbines and furiously working thermal plants. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: lattice towers, nacelle housings, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor structures. No text, no labels.