Solar dominates at 27.4 GW under full overcast; wind adds 14.5 GW, pushing prices to 6.7 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 49%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
84%
Renewable share
14.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
56.3 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
6.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 2.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 27.4 GW occupies nearly half the composition as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the centre and right foreground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky; wind onshore 10.8 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across gentle hills in the mid-ground, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 3.7 GW is visible as a distant cluster of tall offshore turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea sliver; brown coal 5.5 GW dominates the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the flat cloud ceiling; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a smaller compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plant and the solar fields; hard coal 1.4 GW is a modest older power station with a single square stack and thin grey smoke just left of centre background; biomass 4.0 GW shows as a cluster of wood-clad industrial buildings with low chimneys and wispy white emissions on the far left midground; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at the far left edge. Lighting: full midday daylight but completely diffused — no shadows, no direct sun, 100% cloud cover casting a flat, even, pearl-white illumination across the late-March German landscape. Bare deciduous trees with only the earliest buds, pale dormant grass, patches of old snow in shaded hollows, temperature near freezing. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price — no oppressive mood, just a quiet, expansive industrial pastoral. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower parabolic curve. No text, no labels.