Overcast skies limit solar and weak winds force heavy coal and gas dispatch, driving imports of ~16.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 31%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
57%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.3 GW
Solar
46.2 GW
Total generation
-16.8 GW
Net import
136.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
296
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by open-pit lignite mines with terraced earth; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT power plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a classic coal-fired station with large rectangular boiler houses and a single wide chimney; solar 14.3 GW stretches across the right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle rolling hills, their surfaces reflecting only the flat grey light of total overcast — no sunshine, no shadows; wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the far background, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a faint cluster of turbines barely visible on the distant horizon; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack near the coal station; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a valley at the far right edge. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, heavy, uniform stratocumulus at 100% cloud cover — oppressive and pressing down, no blue anywhere, a thick grey-white ceiling that feels dense and weighty, reflecting the 136.4 EUR/MWh price tension. The lighting is diffuse mid-morning daylight at 09:00 in May — even illumination with no directional shadows, everything lit softly but without warmth. Vegetation is fresh spring green — beech and birch trees in new leaf, grass vivid — but the atmosphere is cool, 8°C, with a dampness suggested by mist hanging in valleys. A gentle wind of 15 km/h ripples grass and moves low clouds. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into haze, the grandeur and melancholy of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism — technically precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve, every PV panel frame, rendered with the care of a masterwork landscape. No text, no labels.