Strong onshore wind leads a 79% renewable mix as fading solar and coal thermal plants cover the early-evening demand ramp.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 11%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
33.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.5 GW
Solar
57.1 GW
Total generation
-3.1 GW
Net import
112.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 41.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
144
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 26.0 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying nearly half the canvas from centre to right; wind offshore 7.1 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Solar 6.5 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the mid-ground left-of-centre, their surfaces dull and barely reflective under the overcast sky. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with a lignite conveyor belt visible at their base. Natural gas 4.6 GW sits adjacent as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks and a single thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller industrial block behind the gas plant, with a single square stack trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fed generation facilities with rounded storage silos and short stacks amid bare-branched early-spring trees. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water visible on a stream in the lower right foreground. The sky is 99% overcast — a heavy, oppressive ceiling of uniform grey-pewter clouds reflecting the high electricity price, with only a thin band of orange-red dusk glow along the lowest horizon line to the west, the upper sky already darkening toward slate blue. The landscape shows early spring: grass greening but trees mostly bare, temperature around 15°C conveyed by soft humid air. Wind at 13 km/h animates the turbine blades in gentle rotation and ruffles puddles on dirt paths. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial-age engineering accuracy, rich earth tones and steely greys, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro where cooling tower steam catches the last dusk light. No text, no labels.