Solar (22.3 GW) and wind (18.9 GW) lead, but 21.2 GW of coal and gas hold the residual load on a cool, partly cloudy spring morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 13%
69%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
67.7 GW
Total generation
+1.8 GW
Net export
87.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
74% / 126.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
219
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, angled toward a hazy mid-morning sun partially veiled by 74% cloud cover. Wind onshore 15.7 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning gently in moderate breeze across green-brown early-spring fields. Wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon line. Brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky. Hard coal 5.9 GW sits adjacent as a pair of tall brick chimneys with dark exhaust and a large coal bunker building. Natural gas 6.4 GW is rendered centre-left as compact CCGT units with slender metallic exhaust stacks and a visible heat-shimmer. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power plant with a low stack and a pile of wood chips beside it. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the foreground valley. The sky is mostly clouded in layered grey-white stratocumulus with patches of pale blue, and diffuse spring daylight at 11:00 illuminates the landscape brightly but without sharp shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive — hinting at the elevated electricity price — with industrial haze softening the distance. Vegetation is early spring: bare deciduous trees budding faintly, pale green grass, patches of dark ploughed earth, and scattered yellow coltsfoot flowers. Temperature around 6°C is conveyed by a cool tonal palette of steel blues, muted greens, and warm ochres where sunlight breaks through. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich impasto brushwork, luminous glazed skies, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV module's grid pattern. No text, no labels.