Full overcast limits solar; wind and brown coal anchor generation while 12.8 GW of net imports bridge the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 21%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
63%
Renewable share
15.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.3 GW
Solar
48.9 GW
Total generation
-12.8 GW
Net import
125.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.9 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky; hard coal 4.5 GW sits just right of centre-left as a pair of tall brick stacks with darker exhaust beside a coal bunker and conveyor belt; natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre-right as two compact CCGT blocks with slender single exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; wind onshore 9.6 GW stretches across the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling green hills, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW is visible on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea; solar 10.3 GW occupies the centre foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gently sloping meadow, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light with no sun glare; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse visible in a river cutting through the valley floor. The time is 08:00 on a May morning—full daylight but entirely diffused: the sky is a uniform 100% cloud cover in layered pewter and slate grey, pressing down heavily, with no blue and no direct sunlight. Atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting high electricity prices. Temperature is cool spring, 12–13 °C: fresh green foliage on birch and beech trees, damp grass, puddles on dirt paths. Wind speed is modest—leaves rustle gently, flags hang limply. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the mid-ground carrying bundled ACSR conductors toward the horizon, symbolising heavy import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric weight combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour in muted greens, greys, and ochres, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.