Diffuse solar leads at 14.4 GW under full overcast, but weak wind and 23 GW net imports define this expensive evening hour.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 38%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
64%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.4 GW
Solar
37.6 GW
Total generation
-23.1 GW
Net import
129.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 54.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
261
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 14.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green farmland, their surfaces reflecting only grey diffuse light under heavy overcast; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low clouds, adjacent lignite conveyors and dark stockpiles visible; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical fermenters, green-domed biogas tanks, and thin exhaust columns; natural gas 3.5 GW rendered as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; hard coal 3.3 GW shown as a coal plant with twin chimneys and a dark coal yard beside rail tracks; wind onshore 3.3 GW depicted as a modest row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly still in the light breeze; wind offshore 0.7 GW suggested by a few tiny turbine silhouettes on a far hazy horizon line; hydro 1.4 GW shown as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley in the mid-distance. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy uniform blanket of warm grey with a faint orange-amber glow along the lower western horizon indicating 17:00 dusk beginning, light rapidly fading, upper sky darkening to slate grey. Lush late-spring vegetation—bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflower meadows—reflects the 21.9°C warmth. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 129 EUR/MWh price: hazy, humid, slightly suffocating industrial weight pressing down. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve, every PV panel frame. No text, no labels.