Overcast calm morning: solar leads at 17.7 GW but near-zero wind forces heavy coal, gas, and 18 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 41%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
60%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.7 GW
Solar
43.2 GW
Total generation
-18.0 GW
Net import
129.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 24.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
282
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.5 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 open-pit lignite mines with terraced earth tones; solar 17.7 GW fills the broad centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light under total cloud cover; natural gas 4.8 GW appears as a group of compact CCGT power plants with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour plumes, positioned centre-left between the coal complex and the solar fields; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the brown coal as a smaller conventional plant with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a dome silo and short steam vent near the right edge; wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless; hydro 1.8 GW is a small concrete dam visible in a forested valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely suggested as tiny turbine silhouettes on a hazy horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 09:00 in May — full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, a flat uniform pale-grey cloud ceiling pressing low, creating a heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price of 130 EUR/MWh. The landscape is spring-green with fresh May foliage on deciduous trees and bright grass, temperature around 14°C, air perfectly still with no motion in leaves or flags. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial haze blending into cloud, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower flute, and gas-plant exhaust stack. The scene balances pastoral spring beauty with industrial weight. No text, no labels.