Solar leads at 25 GW under heavy overcast, with 17.9 GW wind and 6.9 GW brown coal supporting midday demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 42%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
81%
Renewable share
17.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.0 GW
Solar
59.3 GW
Total generation
-2.4 GW
Net import
75.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 30.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 25.0 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their surfaces reflecting dull silver under a completely overcast sky. Wind onshore 12.8 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze across green spring meadows. Wind offshore 5.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines on a hazy grey horizon suggesting the North Sea coast. Brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast, beside conveyor belts and open-pit terracing of the Lausitz lignite region. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack at centre-left. Natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.6 GW shows as a single smaller coal plant with a tall chimney and thin smoke trail tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at the far left edge. The sky is a uniform heavy blanket of 99% cloud cover — no sun disk visible, flat diffuse light at late-morning brightness, a leaden pewter-grey atmosphere pressing down with a slightly oppressive weight reflecting the 75.5 EUR/MWh price. The landscape is lush mid-May green with fresh deciduous foliage, wildflowers in the grass between panel rows, temperature around 15°C giving a cool damp feel. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro in the cloud masses, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower profile. No text, no labels.