Wind leads at 18.8 GW but cold temperatures, heavy cloud, and high demand drive strong fossil dispatch and 10.9 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
58%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.2 GW
Solar
49.8 GW
Total generation
-10.8 GW
Net import
146.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.2°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
281
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 13.1 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling hills; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines rising from a grey sea horizon. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes. Natural gas 8.7 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat. Hard coal 4.3 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker, older station with a single large smokestack. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and piled timber in its yard. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at centre-right. Solar 4.2 GW is barely visible: a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under thick overcast. The sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight, no warm colours, only cold twilight. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 146.6 EUR/MWh price: low clouds press down on the industrial landscape, mist clings to the ground at 1.2 °C, and frost coats bare early-April branches and dead grass. Wind is nearly still at ground level despite the turbines spinning above. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich muted colour palette of slate blue, charcoal, ivory steam, and iron grey, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of mist, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.