Solar leads at 36.7 GW with coal baseload persisting; 4.5 GW net exports under broken spring cloud.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
10.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.7 GW
Solar
67.8 GW
Total generation
+4.5 GW
Net export
52.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 566.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
167
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, angled southward, glinting under broken afternoon light. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily, adjacent to a lignite open-pit mine with terraced earth. Wind onshore 5.6 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on rolling hills in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 4.6 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on the far-left horizon standing in a hazy grey sea glimpsed through a river valley. Hard coal 4.3 GW is rendered as a coal-fired plant with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts in the left-centre background. Natural gas 3.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall, positioned between the coal plant and the solar fields. Biomass 4.1 GW is shown as a modest wood-chip power station with a cylindrical silo and small smokestack amid early-spring deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out in pale green. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a gentle river in the valley floor. Time is 14:00 in early April: full daylight but with a dramatic 89% overcast sky of layered grey-white cumulus and stratocumulus, broken by brilliant gaps where intense golden sunlight streams through in shafts, illuminating the solar panels and casting dramatic cloud shadows across the landscape. Temperature is a mild 12.6°C; vegetation shows early spring — bare branches with first buds, patches of green grass, ploughed fields. The mood is calm but industrially busy, not oppressive. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower ribbing, and smokestack. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of scale and sublime grandeur but applied to a modern industrial-energy landscape. No text, no labels.