Overcast skies limit solar output; coal, gas, and 16 GW net imports sustain German demand at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 31%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 13%
58%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.4 GW
Solar
49.4 GW
Total generation
-16.3 GW
Net import
116.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
276
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.2 GW dominates the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy grey sky; hard coal 5.5 GW sits just right of centre as a sprawling coal-fired plant with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 9.1 GW occupies the centre-right as three modern CCGT combined-cycle units with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; solar 15.4 GW appears across the middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching toward the horizon, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the dense overcast with no sun glint; wind onshore 5.5 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on low rolling hills at right, blades turning gently in light wind; wind offshore 1.8 GW appears as a faint row of distant turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting the North Sea; biomass 4.1 GW is a modest wood-fired CHP plant with a rounded silo and single stack amid bare-branched early-spring trees at far left; hydro 1.8 GW is a small dam with spillway tucked into a valley at the far left edge. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy iron-grey ceiling pressing down oppressively, no sun disc visible, diffuse flat midday daylight at 11:00 illuminating the scene without shadows. Temperature 9°C: early spring vegetation, grass just greening, trees mostly bare with tiny buds, patches of mud. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured — the high electricity price rendered as a brooding density in the air, haze clinging between the cooling towers and stacks. Faint suggestion of high-voltage transmission lines entering from the eastern border, hinting at imports. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.