Strong onshore wind (28.4 GW) leads generation under full overcast, with brown coal and gas bridging a 2.2 GW import gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 10%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 16%
72%
Renewable share
32.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.9 GW
Solar
61.4 GW
Total generation
-2.2 GW
Net import
104.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 4.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
199
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 28.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; brown coal 9.7 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; solar 5.9 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the overcast; natural gas 5.4 GW sits as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and thin grey plumes just left of center; wind offshore 4.3 GW is suggested on the distant horizon as a line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a small wood-chip plant with a modest smokestack at the edge of a village; hard coal 2.2 GW is a single dark industrial block with a squat chimney near the lignite complex; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with white spillway water in the foreground valley. The sky is completely overcast with heavy, low, oppressive slate-grey clouds — no blue, no sun disc visible — at 4 PM full daylight but diffuse and flat. The landscape is early spring: bare deciduous trees with first hints of green buds, patches of pale grass, damp earth. Temperature is mild at 12°C, air feels damp. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, reflecting the high electricity price — a sense of industrial tension. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich earth tones, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro despite the overcast. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower parabolic profile, PV panel frame, and CCGT stack. The scene feels monumental and sublime — an industrial landscape as a masterwork painting. No text, no labels, no people prominent.