Solar leads at 25.9 GW with significant coal and gas backup as Germany imports 3.2 GW on a cool, cloudy April morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 42%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
69%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
61.3 GW
Total generation
-3.2 GW
Net import
97.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75.0% / 89.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
209
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.9 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, catching diffused daylight under an overcast sky; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the clouds; natural gas 8.1 GW sits centre-left as a group of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 8.3 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines with tubular steel towers on ridgelines in the mid-distance, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by smaller turbines visible on a far grey horizon line; hard coal 4.0 GW is rendered as a traditional coal-fired station with a large rectangular boiler house and single tall chimney emitting a pale plume, positioned behind the gas plant; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and short stack near the right edge; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a stone powerhouse tucked in a wooded valley in the far right corner. The sky is 75% overcast — layered grey-white stratocumulus with occasional brighter patches where the sun tries to break through — casting flat, even daylight across the full scene at mid-morning brightness. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, with a muted, cool colour palette suggesting the elevated electricity price. Vegetation is early spring: bare branches with first pale-green buds, patches of brown and green grass, cool 5.6 °C feeling conveyed by mist lingering in low valleys. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth receding into haze, dramatic compositional balance between industrial modernity and natural terrain. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice and tubular towers, panel racking, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.