Solar leads at 22.1 GW under partial cloud; brown coal, gas, and 10.3 GW net imports cover high midday demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 41%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.1 GW
Solar
54.4 GW
Total generation
-10.3 GW
Net import
117.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
47% / 255.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
243
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 22.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green spring meadows, angled south, catching strong but partly diffused sunlight. Brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 7.9 GW sits centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines on low hills behind the solar fields, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and timber yard to the far left. Hard coal 3.5 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal stockpile adjacent to the brown coal complex. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line beyond a river. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest dam and penstock structure nestled into a wooded hillside at the far right edge. The sky is a patchwork of 47 percent cloud cover — broken cumulus clouds drifting across a spring-blue sky, with direct sun piercing through gaps and casting sharp shadows on the PV arrays while softer diffused light fills the cloud-covered zones. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the sunshine, reflecting the high electricity price: a faint yellowish industrial haze lingers near the thermal plants. Vegetation is early-spring green — fresh leaves on birch and beech trees, grass vivid but low. Temperature around 10 °C is conveyed through cool-toned shadows and figures in light jackets near a substation in the mid-ground. Time is 11:00 full daylight with the sun fairly high in the southeast. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth across the panoramic industrial landscape, dramatic cloud formations rendered with luminous edges where sunlight breaks through. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic geometry, conveyor trusses. No text, no labels.