Solar at 38.9 GW leads an 83% renewable mix under full cloud cover, with brown coal and gas providing residual baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
60.9 GW
Total generation
+2.5 GW
Net export
45.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 154.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering roughly two-thirds of the canvas. Brown coal 5.1 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes. Wind onshore 4.1 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the right middle distance, their rotors barely turning. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-chip power station with a squat smokestack and timber storage yard in the centre-left. Natural gas 3.1 GW is a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a slender plume, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a grey sea visible through a gap between hills at the far right horizon. Hard coal 2.0 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower set beside the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge. The sky is entirely overcast — a uniform blanket of pale grey-white stratiform clouds — yet the scene is brightly and evenly lit as full midday daylight diffuses through the cloud layer; no direct sunbeams, no shadows, just soft luminous April light at 1 PM. The landscape is lush spring green: fresh deciduous leaves, bright grass meadows, rapeseed beginning to yellow. Air temperature is mild at 16°C; atmosphere feels neither oppressive nor liberating — a neutral, quietly industrious mood. The wind is nearly still, indicated by limp flags and motionless tree branches. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich, layered colour with visible brushwork, luminous overcast sky rendered with subtle tonal gradations, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.