Solar leads at 16.9 GW under overcast skies; coal and gas fill the gap as wind collapses and imports cover 13.5 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 33%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 20%
46%
Renewable share
1.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.9 GW
Solar
51.1 GW
Total generation
-13.5 GW
Net import
171.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 27.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
367
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 10.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 10.8 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 6.7 GW appears centre-right as a dark brick-and-steel power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; solar 16.9 GW spans the entire right third and middle-ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light — no direct sun visible; biomass 4.2 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a rounded silo and low steam vent in the mid-ground behind the solar field; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock structure at the far right edge near a river; wind onshore 0.9 GW is represented by two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors completely still; wind offshore 0.2 GW is a single tiny turbine silhouette barely visible on the far horizon. The sky is a uniform oppressive blanket of 98% cloud cover at 09:00 in April — full diffuse daylight but no blue sky, no sun disc, a heavy pewter-grey atmosphere pressing down, giving a claustrophobic feeling consistent with the 171.5 EUR/MWh price. The landscape is early-spring central Germany at 3.4°C: bare deciduous trees with the faintest suggestion of budding, brown-green dormant grass, patches of frost in shadows. The air is perfectly still — no motion in flags, smoke rises vertically, puddles are mirror-flat. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene diagonally, cables slightly sagging, symbolising the heavy import flow. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour in muted earth tones and greys, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.