Overcast dawn: onshore wind leads at 13.8 GW, but high residual load and 10.6 GW net imports drive prices above 121 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 17%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
64%
Renewable share
16.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.3 GW
Solar
47.9 GW
Total generation
-10.5 GW
Net import
121.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
250
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 5.9 GW appears left of centre as three compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; hard coal 3.9 GW sits centre-left as a dark industrial complex with a single squat chimney and coal bunkers; onshore wind 13.8 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning very slowly in light wind, stretching across rolling green spring fields; offshore wind 2.6 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines emerging from haze above a distant grey sea; solar 8.3 GW appears in the centre-right foreground as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gently sloping meadow, surfaces reflecting only the dull grey sky—no sunshine, no highlights; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad power station with a short smokestack and timber storage yard in the mid-ground between the coal complex and the wind turbines; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock nestled in a forested valley in the far background. The sky is completely overcast with heavy, low, uniform grey clouds—early dawn at 07:00 in late April, the light is a cold pale blue-grey with no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible, the horizon barely distinguishable from the cloud layer. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and dense, reflecting the high electricity price. Bare-branching trees and fresh pale-green spring grass at 6.7°C, dew on surfaces, muted colours. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.