Wind leads at 22.1 GW but absent solar and cold demand drive coal, gas, and 5.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 19%
53%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
51.8 GW
Total generation
-5.8 GW
Net import
137.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
326
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 9.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; hard coal 6.7 GW sits just right of centre as a pair of conventional coal plants with tall rectangular boiler houses and chimney stacks trailing grey smoke; natural gas 7.7 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with single slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapor wisps; wind onshore 15.8 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into the misty distance across flat farmland, rotors turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.3 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on the far-right horizon rising from a faint grey sea line; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-fired plant with a rounded silo and single stack near the coal station; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse beside a dark river in the foreground. Time is early dawn, 06:00 in late March: the sky is a deep blue-grey with the faintest cold pale band of pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no solar panels anywhere. Temperature is 3°C — bare deciduous trees, frost on brown dormant grass, patches of mist along the river. Overcast at 96% cloud cover creates a heavy, oppressive low ceiling of slate-grey stratus pressing down on the industrial landscape. No stars visible. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools on a road winding between the power stations. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines thread through the scene connecting the plants. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial sublime — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, lamp black, and muted ochre; visible confident brushwork; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower contour, and boiler stack; dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the predawn gloom. No text, no labels.