Overcast calm drives heavy thermal dispatch and ~18 GW net imports as wind and solar underperform on a May morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 20%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.4 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
-17.9 GW
Net import
151.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 9.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
309
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.2 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers pouring thick white steam into the grey sky; solar 7.4 GW appears in the left-centre as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting only dull grey light under total overcast; wind onshore 5.5 GW occupies the centre-right as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers with rotors nearly still in the calm air; natural gas 5.4 GW sits right of centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and modest chimney emitting pale smoke; hard coal 3.6 GW is rendered as a coal-fired station with a single large cooling tower and coal bunker visible in the right background; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line above a grey North Sea sliver; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete dam with water spilling in the far left background among forested hills. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a uniform heavy grey pressing down oppressively — consistent with the 151.3 EUR/MWh price tension. Time is 07:00 in early May: a pale pre-dawn luminescence seeps through the clouds from the east, casting the scene in cold blue-grey half-light with no direct sunlight and no warm tones. The temperature is 11°C in spring — fresh green leaves on deciduous trees, bright spring grass, but the atmosphere feels damp and still. Air is motionless, no flags flutter, no turbine motion blur. High-voltage transmission lines stretch across the scene, symbolising the large import flows. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour despite the grey palette, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with misty industrial haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and PV panel geometry. No text, no labels.