Solar leads at 21.4 GW but near-zero wind forces heavy brown coal, gas, and hard coal dispatch, lifting prices to 147.6 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 40%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
54%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.4 GW
Solar
53.8 GW
Total generation
+53.8 GW
Net export
147.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-0.0°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
57% / 22.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
322
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 11.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into a grey-white overcast sky; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; hard coal 5.1 GW appears centre-right as a pair of dark brick-and-steel power stations with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; solar 21.4 GW spans the entire right third and mid-ground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting a diffuse, milky daylight filtered through 57% cloud cover; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a wooden-clad CHP plant with a tall flue and stacked timber in the mid-ground between the coal and solar; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a powerhouse nestled in the far background beside a cold river; wind onshore 1.8 GW is shown as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the dead-calm air; wind offshore 0.4 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line barely visible through haze. The time is 08:00 on a late-March morning in central Germany — full but subdued daylight, the sun low in the east behind a heavy veil of stratocumulus, casting flat diffuse light with no shadows. Temperature is 0°C: bare deciduous trees with frost on branches, patches of old snow on ploughed fields, frozen puddles in the foreground. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price — a leaden, pewter-toned sky pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric grandeur merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, PV module frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.