Solar leads at 19.7 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas fill the gap as weak wind drives imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 41%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
61%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.7 GW
Solar
48.2 GW
Total generation
-9.4 GW
Net import
118.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
267
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat central-German farmland under a uniformly overcast, heavy grey sky with no visible sun; brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud base, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 6.8 GW appears as three compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the centre; wind onshore 3.9 GW shows a short row of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the far background, their rotors barely turning in the still air; hard coal 3.7 GW appears as a single large coal-fired station with rectangular cooling towers and a tall brick chimney at the far left; hydro 1.6 GW is a small concrete dam set into a wooded valley in the distant background. The lighting is full late-afternoon daylight but entirely diffuse—no shadows, no highlights, flat illumination consistent with 100% cloud cover and only 2 W/m² direct radiation. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price: low clouds press down on the landscape, the air slightly hazy, colours muted in greys, steely blues, and dull greens. Spring vegetation is emerging—pale green buds on deciduous trees, cool-season grass—but the 9.5°C temperature keeps everything restrained. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—but with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation: correct nacelle shapes, lattice tower structures, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, PV module grid patterns. The painting feels monumental and contemplative, an industrial sublime. No text, no labels.