Overcast solar (24.8 GW) leads generation but windless conditions and 8.9 GW net imports drive prices above 119 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.8 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
-8.9 GW
Net import
119.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
85.0% / 35.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
254
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under heavy grey overcast, catching only diffuse light with no direct sun visible; brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising vertically into the still air; natural gas 6.0 GW appears centre-left as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls; hard coal 4.1 GW sits behind as a traditional power station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad CHP plant with a small steam plume near a timber yard; wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely motionless in the dead calm; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a grey-hazed horizon line; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with modest white water in the mid-ground. The time is 08:00 on a late June morning: full daylight but no sun breaks through the dense 85% cloud blanket, producing a flat, pearly-grey illumination with no shadows. The air is perfectly still — no motion in tree foliage, no ripple on water, flags hanging limp. Lush midsummer vegetation in deep greens — wheat fields, deciduous trees in full leaf — surrounds the industrial structures. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and close, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every structure, dramatic tonal contrast between the pale sky and dark industrial forms. No text, no labels.