Diffuse solar leads at 25.5 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas backstop a 6.3 GW net import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 47%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
65%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.5 GW
Solar
54.6 GW
Total generation
-6.3 GW
Net import
101.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
241
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a featureless iron-grey overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting dull pewter light; brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers venting thick white steam plumes that merge seamlessly into the low cloud ceiling; natural gas 6.7 GW appears centre-left as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls; wind onshore 4.1 GW shows as a modest line of eight three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a low ridge in the mid-distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; hard coal 3.9 GW appears as a dark conventional power station with a single large chimney beside a coal conveyor and stockpile to the far left; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a rounded silo and short stack emitting thin grey exhaust, nestled among trees centre-right; hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the distant background; wind offshore 0.2 GW is barely hinted at by a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon. The sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover, no blue sky visible, no direct sunlight, yet midday brightness makes the scene fully daylit in flat, shadowless illumination. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — a thick humid haze hangs over the industrial structures. The temperature is cool at 9.7°C; spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, with budding beech trees and rapeseed fields not yet in full bloom. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into misty grey horizons — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve, every PV panel's cell grid is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels, no human figures.