Solar leads at 16.7 GW but weak wind and 14.9 GW net imports keep coal and gas running hard.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 37%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.7 GW
Solar
45.5 GW
Total generation
-14.9 GW
Net import
137.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 14.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
304
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 9.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into an overcast sky, alongside open-pit lignite conveyors; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze; solar 16.7 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a muted, diffused daylight with no direct sunbeams; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre as a brick-chimneyed power station with moderate grey smoke; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad CHP plant with a low woodchip silo; wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely motionless in the calm air; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by two tiny turbines on a hazy sea glimpsed at the far horizon; hydro 1.9 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a forested valley at the right edge. The sky is 75% overcast — layered grey-white stratus with occasional pale breaks letting through cool diffused morning light at 08:00, no direct sun visible, overall atmosphere heavy and oppressive reflecting the 137 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a cool 8°C early May: fresh green foliage on birches and beeches, some wildflowers in meadows, but grass still damp. The air is nearly still, no motion in branches or flags. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective receding into haze. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic geometry, PV panel cell grids, CCGT heat-recovery housings. No text, no labels.