Strong onshore wind at 28.6 GW dominates an overcast 80% renewable grid, compressing prices to near zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 21%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 10%
80%
Renewable share
34.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.8 GW
Solar
66.4 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
4.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 55.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
140
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 28.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across the entire right half and deep into the background, rotors visibly spinning in steady wind; wind offshore 6.1 GW appears as a distant row of taller turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey sea glimpsed between hills; solar 13.8 GW occupies the lower-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks, their surfaces reflecting only the flat grey light of total overcast — no direct sunbeam; brown coal 6.5 GW fills the left portion as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast, adjacent to conveyor belts and open-pit lignite terraces; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a medium-sized biomass CHP plant with a cylindrical silo and modest steam stack just left of centre; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and slim heat-recovery steam generator behind the biomass plant; hard coal 3.1 GW shows as a traditional coal plant with a single large chimney emitting a faint plume, positioned to the far left behind the lignite towers; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with green-brown water visible in the left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform blanket of pewter-grey stratus with no blue patches and no visible sun disc, but it is clearly full mid-afternoon daylight at 15:00 with diffuse bright illumination casting no shadows. Temperature 5.3 °C: late-winter landscape with bare deciduous trees, patches of brown dormant grass, and occasional remnant snow on north-facing slopes; early green shoots just beginning. Wind at 20 km/h animates flags on facility masts, bends the dry grass, and streaks the steam plumes sharply to the right. Low price atmosphere: the sky, though grey, feels open and calm — no oppressive heaviness, a tranquil industrial panorama. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. No text, no labels.