Solar leads at 18.8 GW but heavy cloud, weak wind, and high demand push coal and gas output up, lifting prices to 127 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 37%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
65%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.8 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
127.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93% / 34.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
251
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey overcast light; brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes merging with the clouds; natural gas 5.0 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; wind onshore 5.6 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on distant hills behind the solar fields, blades barely turning in light wind; hard coal 3.9 GW sits as a gritty coal-fired station with rectangular chimney stacks beside a dark coal yard, adjacent to the lignite plant; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-clad biomass plant with a modest chimney emitting pale smoke near the centre; wind offshore 2.6 GW is glimpsed as tiny turbines on a far grey horizon line suggesting the North Sea; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam and spillway nestled in a green valley at far right. The sky is 93% overcast — a thick, oppressive ceiling of grey stratus with only a narrow band of deep orange-red glow along the lowest western horizon where the sun sets at 17:00 dusk in Berlin, casting warm amber light on the undersides of the cooling tower steam and tinting the PV panel edges. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly — haze thickens the air, lending a brooding weight. Spring vegetation: lush green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth fading into industrial haze, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing western horizon and the darkening eastern sky. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and blade pitch mechanisms, individual PV cell grids under glass, reinforced-concrete cooling tower shells with condensation cascades, steel lattice transmission towers carrying high-voltage lines across the scene. No text, no labels.