Calm winds and high demand drive coal and gas output to 22.8 GW while 18.5 GW of net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 23%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 20%
48%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.2 GW
Solar
44.2 GW
Total generation
-18.5 GW
Net import
133.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
59% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
349
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 8.7 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and heat shimmer; hard coal 5.4 GW appears centre-right as a large coal-fired station with square chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; solar 10.2 GW spans the right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels reflecting muted grey-white light under broken clouds; wind onshore 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest line of three-blade turbines on a gentle hill in the mid-background, rotors nearly still; wind offshore 1.3 GW appears as a handful of distant turbines on the far horizon above a faint grey sea; biomass 4.5 GW is a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard between the coal station and the solar field; hydro 1.6 GW is a small concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a forested valley at the far right edge. Time of day is 08:00 morning in mid-April: full daylight but subdued, the sun low in the east behind 59% cloud cover casting soft diffuse light with no hard shadows, sky a layered mix of pale blue patches and grey-white stratocumulus. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the 133.6 EUR/MWh electricity price — a faintly sulphurous industrial haze hangs at mid-altitude, muting colours. Temperature 9.4 °C: early spring vegetation, bare branches just budding pale green, damp fields, cool mist lingering in low ground. Wind is nearly absent — smoke and steam rise vertically, flags hang limp. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and smokestack. The composition reads as a panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.