Solar leads at 17.3 GW under overcast skies; heavy thermal dispatch and 12.9 GW net imports meet high spring demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 34%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.3 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
-12.9 GW
Net import
128.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 90.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
289
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.3 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland under a dim diffuse daylight, their surfaces reflecting a pale white-grey sky; brown coal 9.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling, beside open-pit lignite excavation terraces; natural gas 8.4 GW appears centre-left as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer; wind onshore 4.7 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across a low ridge in the mid-ground, blades turning slowly in light wind; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial facility with timber-pile storage yards and a modest smokestack; hard coal 4.0 GW stands behind the gas plant as a traditional coal-fired station with rectangular boiler buildings and a tall brick chimney; wind offshore 1.8 GW is glimpsed as distant turbines on the far horizon line; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure nestled along a river in the right background. The sky is almost entirely covered by thick, oppressive, low stratus clouds at 98% cover, with only the faintest suggestion of brighter diffuse light near the zenith indicating a 10 AM April sun that never breaks through; the atmosphere feels heavy, damp, and pressured, conveying the high electricity price. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched oaks and beeches with just the first pale green buds, brown grass with scattered green patches, temperature around 8°C. The landscape is northern German plains. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth achieved through sfumato haze, dramatic chiaroscuro in the industrial plumes against the grey sky. Every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT heat-recovery housings. A masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.