Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as low wind and heavy overcast suppress renewables, driving high prices and large net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 16%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 21%
42%
Renewable share
4.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.2 GW
Solar
40.0 GW
Total generation
-20.8 GW
Net import
148.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
86% / 0.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
388
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left quarter of the canvas as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, surrounded by lignite conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces; natural gas 9.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.8 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal-fired plant with a tall square chimney and coal stockpiles; solar 6.2 GW is rendered as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting only the dull grey sky with no direct sunlight; biomass 4.5 GW sits behind the solar field as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP facilities with modest stacks and woodchip storage domes; wind onshore 2.8 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the far right background, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air; wind offshore 1.5 GW is hinted at by tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river dam on a stream in the lower-right corner. The sky is early dawn at 07:00 in mid-April — a thin band of pale blue-grey light along the eastern horizon beneath a dense 86% overcast ceiling of heavy stratiform clouds, no direct sun visible, the landscape illuminated by diffuse pre-dawn twilight. Temperature is a chilly 6.7°C: bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to bud, patches of frost on grass, cool-toned greens and browns in early-spring meadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 148.6 EUR/MWh price — the clouds press low, the air is thick and still, smoke and steam hang without dispersing. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, a vast panoramic composition with meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's gridline pattern. No text, no labels.