Strong wind generation leads at 27.8 GW but cold overcast conditions and heating demand keep coal and gas firmly dispatched.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 14%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
27.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.1 GW
Solar
58.1 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
122.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
198
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 20.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; wind offshore 7.2 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines visible on the far-right horizon over a grey sea inlet; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; natural gas 4.5 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.4 GW appears adjacent to the brown coal plant as a smaller station with a single large chimney and coal conveyors; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest stack and timber storage yard; solar 8.1 GW appears as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right mid-ground, but they are dull and unreflective under the heavy overcast — no sunlight glints off them; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a stream in the left mid-ground. The sky is entirely sealed with thick, low, oppressive stratiform clouds in tones of slate grey and pewter — no blue, no sun, no breaks — conveying the 122.6 EUR/MWh price tension. The lighting is pre-dawn to earliest dawn: a pale blue-grey luminosity diffusing from the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, the landscape still mostly in cold shadow with the first feeble grey light catching the white turbine towers. Temperature is near freezing — patches of frost on the grass, breath-like condensation around the cooling towers, bare or barely-budding deciduous trees suggesting a cold spring. Wind at 10.5 km/h creates gentle motion in grass and slow rotation of turbine blades. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich colour palette of cold blues, greys, muted greens, and warm amber from industrial lights still on at dawn, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric perspective. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.