Solar leads at 18.2 GW under full overcast; weak wind forces 12.2 GW net imports and heavy brown-coal dispatch at 72 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 46%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 18%
69%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.2 GW
Solar
39.8 GW
Total generation
-12.2 GW
Net import
72.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 36.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
225
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.2 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting dull grey sky light; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears in the far background right as a cluster of barely-turning three-blade offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biogas plant with cylindrical digesters and a modest exhaust stack with thin vapour; natural gas 3.3 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the lignite station with a single square cooling tower; wind onshore 1.3 GW is shown as two or three nearly still wind turbines on a low ridge, blades barely rotated; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small river weir and powerhouse in the foreground valley. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, heavy, oppressive ceiling of uniform grey-white stratiform clouds with no blue patches, no direct sun visible, yet the scene is in full diffuse midday daylight appropriate for 11:00 in March. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly — a faint industrial haze hangs in the valley, the air is damp and still at 5.8°C, bare deciduous trees with no leaves line the fields, and early spring grass is pale green-brown. The landscape is flat to gently rolling, typical of Thuringia or Saxony-Anhalt. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance, dramatic sense of industrial sublime. Every technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, panel racking, hyperbolic tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.