Solar leads at 27.9 GW under full overcast; brown coal and imports fill the gap amid 32.8 °C heat.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 13%
81%
Renewable share
2.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.9 GW
Solar
43.3 GW
Total generation
-4.5 GW
Net import
100.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 50.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
141
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land with parched summer grass; brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial wood-chip plant with a tall exhaust stack and wood-pile storage yard; natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and smaller steam plume near centre-left; wind onshore 1.7 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in light breeze; hydro 1.6 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading at the far left edge; hard coal 0.7 GW appears as a single smaller coal plant stack barely visible behind the lignite complex. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, uniform grey-white stratus clouds, lit from the west by a dusk glow at 17:00 — a diffuse warm orange-amber tint along the lower horizon fading to pewter grey overhead, creating a thick oppressive summer atmosphere conveying high electricity prices. The temperature is 32.8 °C: vegetation is lush but wilting, heat shimmer rises from the solar panels and dry earth, deciduous trees in full dark-green foliage showing slight drought stress. No direct sunlight breaks through, yet the panels gleam with diffuse reflected sky-light. Transmission lines on steel lattice pylons run from background to foreground, suggesting cross-border power flow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette of ochre, slate-grey, burnt sienna, and muted green; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower reinforcement rib. The scene feels monumental, humid, and weighty. No text, no labels.