Wind leads at 16.5 GW but heavy cloud, cold temperatures, and 14.2 GW net imports drive fossil dispatch and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
54%
Renewable share
16.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.8 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
-14.2 GW
Net import
127.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
85% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
308
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 8.1 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin grey plumes; hard coal 4.0 GW sits beside them as a smaller coal plant with a prominent smokestack and conveyor belt feeding a bunker; wind onshore 14.1 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green spring fields into the hazy distance, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a grey sea glimpsed through a gap on the far right horizon; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and lumber yard; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley in the far middle distance; solar 0.8 GW is represented by a small cluster of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast sky. The time is pre-dawn at 06:00 in April: a pale steel-blue light is just beginning to seep into the eastern horizon, the sky overhead still deep blue-grey, no direct sunlight, 85 percent cloud cover forming a heavy unbroken stratus layer that presses down oppressively, suggesting the high electricity price. Temperature is near 5 °C: the air looks cold, with visible breath-like condensation near the plants, light frost on the grass, early spring foliage — bare branches mixed with pale green buds on birch and beech trees. The overall atmosphere is heavy, industrial, and tense. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark colour palette of slate blues, warm amber from industrial lights, ochre and umber earth tones — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame. Sodium-orange streetlights and facility lighting glow along the industrial complex. No text, no labels.