Record-level March solar at 31.3 GW leads generation, with 10.3 GW brown coal providing persistent thermal baseload under clear skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 55%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
69%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.3 GW
Solar
57.5 GW
Total generation
+1.2 GW
Net export
86.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 417.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
224
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, glinting under intense afternoon sun. Brown coal 10.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding open-pit lignite. Natural gas 4.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks and a thin heat shimmer in the centre-left middle ground. Hard coal 3.1 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single large conventional boiler house with a tall chimney trailing grey smoke. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a squat stack and biomass storage silos in the centre. Wind onshore 2.6 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the far left, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.6 GW appears as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant hazy horizon line. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with cascading water in the lower-left foreground. The sky is completely cloudless, a vivid blue with brilliant direct sunlight casting sharp shadows; the atmosphere has a slight oppressive warm haze near the horizon suggesting elevated electricity prices. Vegetation shows early spring green — bare branches beginning to bud, fresh grass emerging. Temperature is mild, 14.6°C, light clothing weather. Time is 3 PM — full bright afternoon daylight from a high western sun. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic scale contrasts between human industry and the vast landscape — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower parabolic curve, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.