Solar leads at 25 GW under full overcast, but near-zero wind forces heavy coal, gas, and 10.6 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 17%
58%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.0 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
-10.5 GW
Net import
139.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 15.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
292
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the grey sky, with open-pit lignite mines visible at their base; hard coal 6.5 GW appears just right of centre as a large coal-fired power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyors carrying dark fuel; natural gas 7.4 GW occupies the centre as two modern CCGT plants with slender silver exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls; solar 25.0 GW fills the entire right third and extends into the middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland — their surfaces reflecting only the dull grey of the overcast sky, no direct sunlight, no glint; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a green-roofed industrial building and a modest smokestack near the centre-right; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river station with a concrete weir visible along a river in the middle distance; wind onshore 0.8 GW is a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely suggested as tiny motionless turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, heavy, uniform grey ceiling pressing down on the landscape with no blue visible anywhere, creating an oppressive, high-price atmosphere. The light is diffuse daytime at 10:00 — bright enough to see everything but utterly shadowless, consistent with 15.2 W/m² direct radiation. Temperature is 4.5°C in early spring: the vegetation is mostly brown and dormant, bare deciduous trees, patches of frost lingering in shadows, grass just beginning to green. The air is perfectly still — no motion in smoke plumes, which rise vertically. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene, symbolizing the heavy import flows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of greys, browns, ochres, and muted greens; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with haze softening distant industrial structures; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curve, and smokestack. No text, no labels.