Diffuse solar leads at 25.2 GW under full overcast; weak wind and strong lignite support a 4.2 GW net import position.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 46%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
68%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.2 GW
Solar
54.2 GW
Total generation
4.2 GW
Net import
150.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 5.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
226
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.2 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling autumn farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, pearlescent overcast sky with no direct sun — panels visible but not gleaming. Brown coal 9.0 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling, beside a sprawling lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge. Natural gas 5.5 GW appears centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plant buildings with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer. Wind onshore 4.5 GW is shown as a scattered line of tall three-blade turbines on a ridge in the middle distance, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a squat industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the right middle ground. Hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the lignite plant as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney. Wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on a grey horizon line at far left. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley at far right. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of grey stratus pressing down, no blue visible, light is diffuse midday brightness without shadows, consistent with 14:00 daylight under total cloud. Temperature 18.6°C in early autumn: trees show the first hints of yellowing leaves, grass is still mostly green, the air feels mild. The atmosphere is weighty and close, reflecting the high 150.3 EUR/MWh price — a sense of pressure and cost in the heavy sky. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, muted earth tones and greys, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze around distant structures, each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, conveyor belt gantries. The painting feels monumental, sombre, and industrially sublime. No text, no labels.