Solar leads at 23.2 GW under overcast skies; low wind and 9.4 GW net imports meet midday German demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 57%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.2 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-9.4 GW
Net import
4.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 212.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse white light. Wind onshore 2.4 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a gentle hill at centre-left, rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 3.3 GW is visible in the far background as a row of larger turbines standing in a hazy grey sea along the distant horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip conveyors at the left-centre, a thin plume of pale smoke rising. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with billowing white steam plumes, beside a lignite conveyor and spoil heap. Natural gas 2.2 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer above it. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam set into a forested valley in the far left background. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single modest smokestack barely visible behind the lignite plant. The sky is entirely overcast — a uniform, luminous white-grey cloud layer with no blue patches — yet the scene is brightly lit with soft, shadowless midday daylight consistent with 14:00 in April. The landscape is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, patches of bright green grass, cool 12°C atmosphere with a still, calm quality — almost no wind visible in foliage or flags. The atmosphere is serene and open, reflecting the extremely low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading toward the misty horizon — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, PV module gridlines, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.