Solar leads at 26 GW under partly cloudy skies; brown coal and gas fill a 29 GW residual load gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 46%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
70%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.0 GW
Solar
56.3 GW
Total generation
-6.8 GW
Net import
104.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
49% / 419.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
203
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.0 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting bright midday sunlight; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a lignite power station; natural gas 6.2 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 6.6 GW spans the right middle-ground as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning slowly in light breeze; hard coal 3.6 GW sits far left as a smaller coal plant with square chimneys and conveyor belts; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-clad CHP facility with a short stack near a farm; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a distant hazy row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a river; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible along the river in the right foreground. Time is 1 PM in mid-April: full bright daylight, the sun high in the south, roughly 49% cloud cover with large cumulus clouds drifting across a blue sky creating shifting shadows on the landscape. Temperature is mild at 12°C: early spring vegetation, fresh green grass emerging, some bare branches still visible on deciduous trees, patches of yellow rapeseed beginning to bloom. Wind is gentle at 12 km/h, leaves and grass slightly animated. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and hazy near the thermal plants, suggesting elevated electricity prices and industrial intensity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, saturated colours, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a distant blue-grey horizon, dramatic cloud formations with light and shadow play reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.