Solar at 41 GW dominates under clear skies; light wind and modest thermal generation balance a calm spring morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.0 GW
Solar
61.1 GW
Total generation
+0.3 GW
Net export
24.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 240.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
94
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sunlit plain of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a brilliant cloudless April sky. Brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes against the blue. Wind onshore 5.8 GW is rendered as a row of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a gentle ridge in the left-centre middle ground, their blades barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 3.4 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks and a low vapour trail, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a rectangular stack and small conveyor, nestled between the gas plant and the wind turbines. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a single smaller stack with a thin dark exhaust, partially behind the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a reservoir and small dam visible in a valley in the far background. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant hazy horizon line. The time is 10:00 AM in early April: full bright daylight, sun high in the east-southeast, sharp shadows, cool spring atmosphere with bare-branched trees just beginning to bud, pale green grass, temperature around 5°C suggested by frost remnants in shaded areas. The sky is completely clear, open, and calm — reflecting the low electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into blue haze at the horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.