Solar leads at 21.4 GW under overcast skies; weak wind and high demand drive 12.8 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 45%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.4 GW
Solar
47.3 GW
Total generation
-12.8 GW
Net import
106.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 220.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
247
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.4 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green May farmland under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky, diffuse light illuminating their surfaces without sharp shadows. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three towering hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling. Natural gas 4.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin slender exhaust stacks and a low-profile turbine hall situated behind the cooling towers, venting thin translucent exhaust. Hard coal 3.7 GW is rendered as a dark brick-and-steel power station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors at the far left. Biomass 4.0 GW is shown as a modest wood-clad combined heat-and-power facility with a short cylindrical stack and a woodchip storage dome in the mid-ground. Wind onshore 3.8 GW appears as a small cluster of five three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is subtly suggested by two tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. Hydro 1.6 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse along a stream in the foreground right. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive — a uniformly leaden 100% overcast sky pressing down, the air warm at 18.9°C with lush May vegetation: bright green grass, leafy deciduous trees, wildflowers beginning to bloom. Daytime at 15:00 — full diffuse daylight but no blue sky, no sun disc visible, flat even illumination. The mood conveys expensive electricity: a dense, weighty, close atmosphere, no open sky. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible thick impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower flute, and smokestack rivet. No text, no labels.