Diffuse solar leads at 23.2 GW under full overcast, but brown coal, gas, and hard coal fill the 6.1 GW import 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
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.2 GW
Solar
52.0 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
107.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
251
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.2 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniformly grey-white overcast sky with no direct sunlight — panels visible but muted, no glare. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Natural gas 6.7 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, thin heat shimmer rising from its units. Hard coal 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a dark brick power station with a single large smokestack trailing grey-brown exhaust. Wind onshore 4.0 GW is rendered as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the right background, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 0.2 GW appears as a barely visible cluster of tiny turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting a distant sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is shown as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a short stack and small woodchip storage silos between the solar fields and the coal station. Hydro 1.6 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house along a grey-green river in the right foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, heavy, oppressive ceiling of stratiform grey cloud pressing down, no blue visible, diffuse silvery-white light consistent with early-afternoon daylight but no shadows. Temperature 9.7°C in May: fresh spring vegetation — bright green grass, budding deciduous trees — but the atmosphere feels cool and damp. The heavy overcast and high electricity price create an oppressive, weighty mood. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour in muted greys, greens, and earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze near the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.