Diffuse solar leads at 23.8 GW under full overcast, but 10.2 GW net imports needed as wind collapses.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 14%
80%
Renewable share
1.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.8 GW
Solar
37.4 GW
Total generation
10.2 GW
Net import
127.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.4°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 39.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
149
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling late-summer farmland, their surfaces reflecting dull pewter light under total overcast; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low clouds; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack; natural gas 1.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer beside the biomass plant; hydro 1.1 GW shows as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the mid-left; wind onshore 0.9 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single dark industrial stack with a faint wisp of smoke near the brown coal complex. The sky is a uniform blanket of 100% cloud cover at 16:00 daytime — flat, oppressive, heavy grey-white stratus pressing down with no blue visible, diffuse daylight illuminating the scene without shadows. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive, almost suffocating. Late September vegetation: fields with yellowing grasses, some trees showing early autumn tinge at 22°C. Air is still, no motion in foliage. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology: correct turbine nacelle shapes, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. The painting conveys industrial grandeur under an unyielding overcast, a masterwork of the modern energy landscape. No text, no labels.