Overcast solar leads at 24.4 GW alongside 12.4 GW coal and 6.9 GW gas; 8.4 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 45%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
64%
Renewable share
4.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
54.0 GW
Total generation
-8.3 GW
Net import
103.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
246
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 lignite conveyors and open-pit excavators visible at small scale; hard coal 3.9 GW appears just right of them as a smaller pair of stack-equipped power stations with darker smoke; natural gas 6.9 GW fills the left-centre as three compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin translucent heat shimmer; solar 24.4 GW sweeps across the entire right half and centre as vast undulating fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting only flat grey light, no sun glare; wind onshore 4.3 GW stands as a modest line of roughly a dozen three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely suggested by two tiny turbines on a distant hazy horizon line; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a squat boiler building and single smokestack near the coal complex; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse along a stream in the mid-ground. The sky is a continuous heavy blanket of 100% stratus cloud, uniformly bright white-grey with no blue visible — full midday daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows on the ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a 103.9 EUR/MWh price — a faintly yellowish industrial haze sits low over the thermal plants. Vegetation is fresh spring green — young May leaves on birch and beech trees, cool 9°C air suggested by figures in light jackets. High-voltage transmission pylons with bundled conductors march across the scene, symbolising the import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic tonal contrast between the luminous overcast sky and the dark industrial silhouettes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.