Solar leads at 21.5 GW under overcast skies; 9 GW net imports fill the gap at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 55%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.5 GW
Solar
39.2 GW
Total generation
-9.0 GW
Net import
2.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.8°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 109.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 21.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, angled south on metal racks across gently rolling spring farmland. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, beside a conveyor-fed lignite power station with tall chimneys. Wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a distant line of large three-blade turbines on lattice-and-tubular towers visible on the far horizon, slightly hazy. Wind onshore 2.0 GW shows as a small group of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a low hill at the left-centre, blades barely turning in the light 4.8 km/h breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and biomass storage silos in the centre-left middle ground. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the lower-left foreground. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single smaller stack with faint emissions barely visible behind the lignite complex. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform bright white-grey ceiling — yet it is full midday daylight at 13:00 in April, so the landscape is evenly and brightly lit with soft diffused light and no shadows. The atmosphere is calm and tranquil, reflecting the 2.0 EUR/MWh price: open, unhurried, still. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees, some yellow wildflowers. Temperature around 11 °C gives a cool, crisp feel. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels.