Cold, windless April dawn: brown coal, gas, and solar lead generation while 23.4 GW of net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 26%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 20%
50%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
35.0 GW
Total generation
-23.3 GW
Net import
153.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.6°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
334
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into still air; natural gas 6.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a set of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; solar 9.2 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat farmland, angled low, catching only the faintest ambient pre-dawn light with no direct sun visible; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wooden-chip conveyor, modest chimneys, and warm interior glow from furnace openings; hard coal 3.4 GW sits to the far left as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor gantry; wind onshore 2.4 GW appears as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely still in the dead calm; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a concrete dam structure nestled in a valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.2 GW is barely hinted at by a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon. Time of day is dawn at 07:00 in late April — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest band of cold pale light on the eastern horizon, no direct sun yet, the landscape lit mostly by sodium-orange industrial lighting and the glow of furnace fires. Temperature is near freezing: frost coats the grass and bare-branched hedgerows between the solar arrays, breath-like mist drifts low. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and still, reflecting the 153.7 EUR/MWh price — a leaden, brooding quality to the air despite the clear sky above. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour with deep indigos, warm ambers from industrial light, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into misty distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV panel frames and cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles with reinforced concrete ribs, CCGT stainless-steel exhaust stacks. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.