Diffuse solar leads at 19.9 GW but weak wind and full overcast force heavy coal, gas, and ~18.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 43%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
62%
Renewable share
2.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
46.2 GW
Total generation
-18.5 GW
Net import
129.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
270
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a uniformly grey overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting only dull diffuse light; brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low clouds; natural gas 5.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin steel exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, positioned centre-left behind a chain-link fence; hard coal 3.9 GW is rendered as a dark-bricked power station with tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt feeding a coal bunker, set behind the gas plant; biomass 4.4 GW is depicted as a cluster of medium-sized biogas domes and a wood-chip CHP plant with a modest square chimney releasing pale vapour, placed in the mid-ground right; wind onshore 2.4 GW appears as a sparse row of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a faint hint of two turbines on the far grey horizon where sky meets flat land; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse visible at the lower right near a calm river. Time of day is mid-morning with full daylight but no sun visible — the entire sky is a heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform stratocumulus, no blue patches, pressing down on the landscape. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass, leafy hedgerows, rapeseed fields not yet in full bloom — covers the rolling terrain at roughly 14°C. The atmosphere feels heavy and humid, matching a high electricity price; the air is dense and still. 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, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower geometry, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. The mood is industrious and sombre, a working landscape under oppressive cloud. No text, no labels.