Solar leads at 22 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas fill the residual load amid 10.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 42%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
62%
Renewable share
4.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.0 GW
Solar
52.4 GW
Total generation
-10.6 GW
Net import
113.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon under a flat, uniformly overcast sky with no direct sunlight, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey diffuse light. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes merging into the low ceiling of cloud, beside open-pit lignite excavations with terraced brown earth. Natural gas 7.3 GW appears centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and a single shorter cooling tower. Wind onshore 4.5 GW is represented by a modest line of eight three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a low ridge in the centre-background, blades turning slowly in light wind. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the wind turbines. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible at the bottom-left edge beside a grey-green river. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely visible as two tiny turbines on the far distant horizon. The time is 11:00 AM in spring: full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, a heavy pewter-grey sky pressing down on the landscape. Temperature is cool at 8.7°C; vegetation is fresh spring green but muted, with budding deciduous trees and damp meadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting high electricity prices — the air is thick, the cloud base low, the horizon compressed. High-voltage transmission pylons cross the middle ground, symbolising import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich muted colour palette of slate grey, olive green, umber brown, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower flute. No text, no labels.