Wind and solar dominate at 42 GW combined; 24 GW of thermal persists as Germany exports 6.3 GW under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 26%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 14%
66%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.3 GW
Solar
71.8 GW
Total generation
+6.3 GW
Net export
104.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91.0% / 67.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
235
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.7 GW dominates the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes merging into overcast sky; hard coal 6.9 GW sits left-of-centre as a gritty power station with rectangular chimneys and coal conveyors; natural gas 7.6 GW occupies the centre as compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 18.7 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea sliver; solar 18.3 GW covers mid-ground rooftops and open fields with aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels reflecting pale diffuse light under heavy clouds; biomass 4.4 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a low stack near centre-right; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming water at the lower-right edge. Time is 10:00 AM in late March — full daylight but heavily overcast at 91% cloud cover, a flat pewter-white sky with no direct sun, diffuse shadowless illumination. Temperature 5.3°C: bare deciduous trees with the faintest hint of budding, brown-green dormant grass, patches of mud. Wind at 17.2 km/h bends grasses and sways branches. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 104 EUR/MWh price — a dense, low cloud ceiling pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich sombre colour palette of greys, slate blues, ochres, and muted greens; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant turbines; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curve, and smokestack rivet. The scene reads as a masterwork panoramic industrial landscape, epic in scale, melancholy in mood. No text, no labels.