Solar leads at 20.4 GW despite full overcast; brown coal and gas fill the 40 GW residual load amid near-zero wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 39%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
55%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.4 GW
Solar
52.5 GW
Total generation
-11.2 GW
Net import
138.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-0.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
308
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 20.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat, frost-covered farmland under completely overcast skies, catching only diffuse grey light — no direct sun, no shadows. Brown coal 10.7 GW occupies the left third as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy grey cloud ceiling, beside a sprawling open-pit lignite mine with terraced brown earth. Natural gas 8.3 GW appears centre-left as a modern CCGT power station with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, thin heat shimmer rising from the stacks. Hard coal 4.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a conventional boiler house with a single large chimney and coal conveyor belts. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest stack near the centre. Wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a small handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors visibly still or barely turning. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with water spillway glimpsed in a valley at far right. Wind offshore 0.1 GW is negligible and absent from the scene. The time is 08:00 in mid-March: full daylight but entirely diffuse, flat, cold illumination with no direct sunlight; the sky is a uniform heavy blanket of low stratus clouds pressing down oppressively, reflecting the 138.6 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is below freezing: frost rimes every surface — the PV panel frames, grass, bare deciduous branches, metal railings. The landscape is flat north-German lowland with patches of dormant brown winter fields and leafless trees. The atmosphere feels dense, cold, and weighty. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich, muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV module, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.