Solar leads at 37.3 GW under full overcast; brown coal and wind provide supplementary generation at moderate prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 57%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
81%
Renewable share
10.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.3 GW
Solar
65.1 GW
Total generation
+3.5 GW
Net export
63.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 134.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
137
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.3 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their aluminium frames reflecting pale diffuse light from a uniformly overcast sky. Brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting slowly into the grey cloud ceiling, alongside conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills behind the solar fields, their rotors barely turning in the calm air. Wind offshore 4.6 GW is visible in the far background left as a row of turbines standing in hazy grey sea waters on the distant horizon. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest industrial facility with wood-chip silos and a single smokestack near the brown coal plant. Natural gas 3.2 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and small heat-recovery enclosures situated between the coal plant and the solar arrays. Hard coal 2.0 GW shows as a smaller power station with rectangular cooling towers and coal conveyors adjacent to the lignite complex. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible in a valley in the far right background. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy flat blanket of grey-white stratiform cloud typical of a cool late-March midday, yet bright enough to cast soft, shadowless daylight across the entire landscape. Temperature is 4.7°C: bare deciduous trees with just the first hint of budding branches, pale brown dormant grass, patches of late-winter mud. The air feels still and heavy — no wind motion in vegetation. The atmosphere carries a slightly oppressive, dense quality reflecting the 63.3 EUR/MWh price — not dark but weighty and close. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.