Solar leads at 15.4 GW with wind at 12.4 GW, but 11.5 GW net imports fill the gap on a cool, overcast morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 29%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
64%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.4 GW
Solar
52.3 GW
Total generation
-11.5 GW
Net import
118.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 28.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
243
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 15.4 GW dominates the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland under a heavily overcast sky with diffuse grey light; wind onshore 10.1 GW fills the right third and middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning slowly in light breeze across green spring fields; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes merging into the low cloud deck; natural gas 7.5 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with two slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single rectangular chimney and modest smoke; biomass 4.5 GW is visible as a wood-chip-fed plant with a domed storage silo and short stack near the left foreground; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines in coastal haze; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the lower-left corner. Time is 08:00 in April: full but muted daylight, the sun completely hidden behind thick stratiform cloud at 84% cover, flat diffuse illumination with no shadows, sky a uniform pale grey pressing down with a subtly oppressive weight reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is 5°C: early spring vegetation — bare-branched oaks and beeches beginning to show pale green buds, brown and green pastures, patches of frost lingering in shadowed hollows. Wind is light at 5.9 km/h: turbine blades turning slowly, grass barely stirring. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich tonal depth in the greys and greens, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with distant cooling towers fading into cloud, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, and cooling tower hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels, no people.