Coal, gas, and wind anchor a 40 GW supply against 57 GW demand under full overcast, driving 17 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 24%
41%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
40.0 GW
Total generation
-17.1 GW
Net import
138.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
396
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 9.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy clouds; natural gas 9.8 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a single wide chimney; wind onshore 7.3 GW spans the right third of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers set across gentle rolling hills, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines barely visible on a grey sea horizon far right; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired CHP plant with a modest stack and biomass storage silos; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a dark river in the foreground; solar 0.1 GW is essentially absent — no panels visible. The sky is a 99% overcast ceiling of dense, low stratiform cloud in tones of slate grey and muted steel-blue, with the faintest hint of pre-dawn pale light along the eastern horizon — it is 06:00 in April so only the earliest cold blue-grey twilight breaks through, no direct sunlight, no warm tones. The landscape is early-spring central German: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, damp green meadows, patches of frost on field edges, temperature near 7°C conveyed by misty breath-like condensation near the river. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the cloud layer presses low, the air feels dense and still. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.