Solar leads at 20.8 GW under overcast skies; wind, coal, and gas fill the gap as Germany net-imports 5.4 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 39%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
73%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.8 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
-5.4 GW
Net import
103.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 90.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
193
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 20.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky, their surfaces reflecting diffuse light; wind onshore 9.5 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling green hills in the right background, blades turning gently in light wind; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling; biomass 4.1 GW sits left-centre as a wood-chip-fed plant with a tall rectangular boiler building and conveyor belts feeding shredded timber; natural gas 3.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.3 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with a single cooling tower and coal bunker adjacent to the lignite station; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming spillway in the left middle distance. The time is 15:00 on a spring afternoon: full daylight but no direct sun, the sky a heavy uniform blanket of 100% cloud cover pressing down on the scene, creating an oppressive, weighty atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green deciduous trees in leaf, yellow rapeseed fields between solar arrays, grass lush and damp. The air feels close and humid at 14°C. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic tonal contrast between the white steam and grey sky—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.