Solar leads at 15 GW but fading fast; brown coal and gas fill the gap as Germany imports 11.8 GW at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 34%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.0 GW
Solar
44.6 GW
Total generation
-11.8 GW
Net import
130.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 107.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
292
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 15.0 GW dominates the right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, catching the last diffused grey-orange light beneath total overcast; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; natural gas 5.8 GW appears left-of-centre as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slim exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large chimney trailing darker smoke; wind onshore 4.6 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines with visible lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in light wind; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and warm interior glow visible through industrial windows; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway in the far right valley; wind offshore 0.9 GW is barely suggested as tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, but the 17:00 April dusk paints the lowest horizon in a thin band of copper-orange light rapidly fading to slate grey and deep charcoal above — the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and expensive, befitting 130 EUR/MWh prices. Temperature is a cool 11.9°C spring evening: early green buds on bare deciduous trees, patches of damp earth, muted spring grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and panel frame. Atmospheric perspective renders distant objects in blue-grey haze. No text, no labels.