Wind and fading solar dominate at 73.6% renewable share, with coal and gas bridging a tight supply-demand balance at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 28%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
74%
Renewable share
19.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.0 GW
Solar
56.5 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
97.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 125.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
181
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Solar 16.0 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting dull grey light. Brown coal 6.0 GW fills the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the heavy cloud ceiling. Natural gas 5.4 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slim exhaust stacks venting transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.6 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single rectangular smokestack and coal conveyor belt. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and stored timber piles. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is glimpsed as distant turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with foaming water in the lower-left corner. The sky is 95% overcast — heavy, oppressive stratocumulus in dark grey and slate tones, only a faint orange-red glow lingering along the lowest sliver of the western horizon as dusk settles at 17:00 in late April. The upper sky is already darkening toward deep blue-grey. Temperature is a cool 7.7°C: early spring vegetation, fresh pale-green grass, bare-branched oaks and beeches just beginning to leaf out. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, reflecting the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with misty industrial haze. Every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles, conveyor structures. The composition evokes a grand industrial pastoral — sublime and melancholic. No text, no labels.