Solar at 34.3 GW leads an 81% renewable mix, with brown coal and gas filling the 19.9 GW residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
81%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.3 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
-3.3 GW
Net import
59.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.5°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
47% / 226.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
129
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, covering more than half the composition, their aluminium frames catching bright mid-morning sunlight filtering through broken cumulus clouds. Brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes against the sky. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as medium-scale industrial facilities with wood-chip storage silos and short stacks producing thin pale exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as compact CCGT power blocks with polished single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, set in the centre-left middle ground. Hard coal 2.1 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor, tucked behind the gas plant. Wind onshore 6.9 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on distant hilltops to the right, their blades turning slowly in the light breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines visible on the far horizon where the land meets a sliver of northern sea. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with foaming water visible in the lower right foreground beside a stream. The sky is partly cloudy at 47% cover — bright blue patches alternate with white cumulus, and direct sunlight casts defined shadows across the landscape. The temperature is a cool 6.5 °C spring morning: early green shoots on bare deciduous trees, pale grass, patches of residual frost in shadowed areas. The atmosphere is clear and moderately bright, neither oppressive nor serene, matching the 59.9 EUR/MWh price with a businesslike clarity. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine blade, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve — a grand industrial pastoral. No text, no labels.