Solar leads at 9 GW with wind at 6.1 GW, but 10.3 GW net imports are needed to meet early-morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 31%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
73%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.0 GW
Solar
28.5 GW
Total generation
-10.2 GW
Net import
83.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
47% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
176
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 9.0 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across a gently rolling landscape, reflecting pale grey-blue pre-dawn light under a partially clouded sky. Wind onshore 5.3 GW fills the centre-right as clusters of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across hillsides, their rotors barely turning in the near-still air. Biomass 4.6 GW appears centre-left as several wood-chip-fed power stations with squat chimneys trailing thin white exhaust. Natural gas 3.5 GW sits left-of-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into the heavy sky. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a single smaller stack house with a thin dark plume beside the brown coal plant. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the distant background. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy far horizon line. The sky is early dawn at 07:00 in late April — deep blue-grey overhead transitioning to a pale steel-blue band along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet, only the first diffuse pre-dawn luminance. Temperature is 3.3 °C: bare branches on scattered trees, frost on grass, early spring with only tentative green buds. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — low stratiform clouds press down, reflecting the high 83.2 EUR/MWh price tension. Muted earth tones, cold steel blues, and warm amber glows from industrial facility windows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every panel frame. No text, no labels.