Solar provides 41.5 GW under overcast skies while coal and gas fill the wind-absent gap at 16.4 GW combined.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 10%
74%
Renewable share
0.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.5 GW
Solar
64.2 GW
Total generation
-0.3 GW
Net import
59.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 222.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
171
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces gleaming dully under diffuse daylight. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the overcast sky. Natural gas 6.7 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a pair of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, positioned between the gas plant and the solar fields. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack releasing pale smoke, nestled at the left-centre. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with water spilling over in the foreground middle-ground, partially framed by budding spring trees. Wind onshore 0.5 GW is represented by a single distant three-blade turbine on a lattice tower, its blades barely turning, far on the horizon. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform layer of thick stratus clouds at 100% cover, yet the scene is bright with full late-morning daylight (10:00 Berlin time) — a high, white-grey luminous ceiling with no blue visible. The landscape is early spring in central Germany: fresh pale-green grass, bare-branching deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out, temperature around 9°C conveyed by figures in jackets. The air is still — no motion in flags or vegetation. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and oppressive, reflecting a moderate electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into hazy industrial horizons — yet every technological element is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, panel wiring, cooling tower curvature, CCGT turbine halls. No text, no labels.