Solar leads at 39.7 GW under overcast skies; coal and gas firm the balance as Germany imports 3 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 8%
80%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.7 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
-3.0 GW
Net import
75.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 234.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling fields covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their surfaces reflecting a muted silvery-white light under heavy overcast; brown coal 4.7 GW appears as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers on the left with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the clouds; hard coal 3.5 GW sits just right of them as a smaller power station with block-like boiler houses and a tall chimney trailing dark smoke; natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with sleek exhaust stacks and a single modest vapour trail in the centre-left; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-clad CHP facility with a rounded silo and thin wisp of pale smoke behind the solar fields; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete weir and penstock at a river in the lower foreground; wind onshore 3.3 GW shows a handful of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in light air; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by two tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond a far river estuary. The sky is 89% overcast — thick layered stratocumulus in grey and cream, but with a luminous bright patch where the midday sun pushes diffuse light through, casting soft even illumination without sharp shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, blossoming canola fields in pale yellow patches between panel rows, budding deciduous trees. Temperature 19°C gives a mild, slightly humid atmosphere with gentle aerial perspective haze. The price of 75.1 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a slightly oppressive, heavy cloud ceiling pressing down on the landscape, lending weight to the air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, careful atmospheric depth, warm-cool colour contrasts, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV cell grid line — a grand industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.