Solar leads at 48.5 GW with brown coal and gas providing baseload; Germany exports 25.5 GW under heavy overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.5 GW
Solar
72.3 GW
Total generation
+25.5 GW
Net export
105.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 0.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
154
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across two-thirds of the composition, covering rolling central German farmland; brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy grey sky; natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks and thin vapour trails; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with rounded storage silos and a squat chimney emitting pale smoke; hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the biomass plant as a single large station with rectangular cooling towers; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in a narrow valley on the right edge; wind onshore 0.9 GW shows as a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge with rotors barely turning in still air; wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on a misty horizon line. Time is dawn at 07:00 in April — pale pre-dawn light, deep blue-grey sky with no direct sun visible, a thick 93% overcast ceiling of low stratus clouds pressing down oppressively to reflect the high electricity price. The atmosphere is heavy and humid at 9.4 °C, early spring — bare branches on some trees, others showing first pale-green buds, dew on grass and panel surfaces. Almost no wind: flags hang limp, smoke rises vertically, turbine blades frozen. Despite the dense overcast, a strange diffuse luminosity bathes the solar panels. Foreground shows wet plowed fields and a gravel access road. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through mist and layered cloud, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. Oppressive tonal mood with muted earth tones, steel greys, and cold blues. No text, no labels.