Brown coal leads at 11.3 GW as fading solar and modest wind drive elevated prices and 6.1 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 16%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
47%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.5 GW
Solar
40.4 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
145.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
3% / 141.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
384
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 11.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a dusk sky; natural gas 5.3 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; hard coal 4.8 GW sits beside them as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and a single large chimney; solar 6.5 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last orange-red rays of a setting sun; wind onshore 6.6 GW occupies the right third as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a gentle ridge; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip CHP plant with a modest smokestack near the coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is a rapidly fading dusk: a band of deep orange-red along the low western horizon transitioning to darkening steel-blue and indigo above, nearly cloudless with only 3% cloud cover showing a few wispy cirrus strands catching the last light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting 145.6 EUR/MWh pricing — a brooding, thick haze clings low around the industrial stacks. Vegetation is early spring: pale green buds on bare-branched deciduous trees, fresh grass beginning to emerge at 13.6°C. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.