Overcast skies limit solar yield; coal, gas, wind, and 7 GW net imports meet mid-morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.5 GW
Solar
56.4 GW
Total generation
-7.0 GW
Net import
108.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.2°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 21.5 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and grey under dense overcast — no glint, no reflections, only muted glass. Brown coal 8.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling, adjacent to open-pit lignite excavation terraces. Wind onshore 10.3 GW and offshore 2.7 GW span the far right and distant horizon as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind, the offshore group barely visible through haze on the far horizon. Natural gas 3.9 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with single tall exhaust stacks and smaller vapour plumes nestled in the mid-ground. Hard coal 3.8 GW is rendered as a gritty coal-fired plant with large rectangular boiler houses and a pair of tall brick chimneys emitting faint grey smoke. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of smaller industrial units with cylindrical digesters and wood-chip storage silos amid green fields. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a modest concrete run-of-river weir on a small river in the foreground. High-voltage transmission lines cross the scene in multiple directions, referencing the 7 GW import flow. The sky is a heavy, unbroken ceiling of 99% grey stratus cloud — oppressive and low-hanging, no blue visible, diffuse flat daylight of mid-morning with no shadows and no direct sunlight, reflecting the elevated 108.8 EUR/MWh price through a brooding atmospheric weight. Temperature 14 °C, mid-spring: fresh green deciduous foliage on birch and beech trees, pale wildflowers in meadow grass, damp earth tones. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV cell grid-line — a grand panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.