Strong solar and heavy brown coal anchor a wind-starved German grid, pushing day-ahead prices above 100 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.6 GW
Solar
61.9 GW
Total generation
-0.6 GW
Net import
100.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
78% / 291.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
216
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.6 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, catching diffuse and direct light through broken clouds. Brown coal 9.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, alongside conveyor belts feeding lignite into boiler houses. Natural gas 5.8 GW appears centre-left as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a traditional coal station with a tall chimney and rectangular boiler building. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the centre. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the distant left background. Wind onshore 1.4 GW and wind offshore 1.1 GW are represented by a handful of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered sparsely at the far right horizon, their blades barely turning, nearly motionless in the calm air. The sky is mid-morning April daylight at 10:00, mostly overcast at 78% with a layered broken cloud ceiling in grey and off-white, but with distinct gaps allowing shafts of bright direct sunlight to pierce through and illuminate patches of the solar fields below. The atmosphere feels heavy, slightly oppressive, with a warm amber-grey haze suggesting elevated electricity prices. Early spring vegetation: bare branches with the first hints of pale green buds, brown-green grass, scattered patches of mud. Temperature around 8°C conveyed through cool muted tones and figures in jackets. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening into hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete curve. No text, no labels.