Strong onshore wind leads generation at 24.6 GW as evening demand requires thermal backup and 4.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 53%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
29.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.3 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
-4.8 GW
Net import
73.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
62% / 74.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
140
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 24.6 GW dominates the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across the right two-thirds of the composition, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind across rolling green spring fields. Wind offshore 4.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of dark sea. Brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, connected to a sprawling lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 4.6 GW sits center-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin translucent heat shimmer. Biomass 4.6 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with wood-chip silos, a modest stack, and piled timber. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller coal plant behind the gas units with a single rectangular cooling tower. Hydro 1.6 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley at the far left. Solar 1.3 GW appears minimally as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the middle distance, their surfaces dark and unreflective in the dying light. The sky is a dusk sky at 19:00 in April: the lower horizon glows deep orange-red fading rapidly upward into slate blue and violet, with 62% cloud cover rendered as broken stratocumulus catching the last warm light underneath while their tops darken to grey. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive reflecting the 73.8 EUR/MWh price — hazy, humid air with industrial particulates softening distant features. Spring vegetation at 16.6°C: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers beginning to bloom. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth from foreground coal infrastructure through midground wind turbines to distant offshore horizon. Meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower geometries, and gas stacks. No text, no labels, no people prominent.