Wind leads at 21.6 GW with late solar support; moderate thermal fills residual load at comfortable spring prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 22%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
84%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.1 GW
Solar
45.1 GW
Total generation
-0.9 GW
Net import
48.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
28% / 247.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green spring hills from the centre to the right, their rotors turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a sliver of grey sea. Solar 10.1 GW fills the mid-left foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled toward the low western sun, catching orange-gold reflections. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and modest chimneys with pale exhaust, positioned left of centre. Brown coal 2.9 GW appears as two large hyperbolic cooling towers on the far left emitting gentle white steam plumes. Natural gas 2.7 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.8 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single square chimney, adjacent to the lignite towers. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley in the distant left background. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in early April: the sun sits very low on the western horizon casting a deep orange-red glow along the lower third of the sky, transitioning upward through peach and lavender to a darkening blue-grey overhead, with only 28% cloud cover — a few thin cirrus clouds catching the dying light. The atmosphere is calm and moderate, neither oppressive nor exuberant, matching a mid-range electricity price. Fresh spring vegetation — bright green grass, budding deciduous trees, early wildflowers — covers the rolling terrain at 12.7°C. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with luminous depth — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.