Diffuse solar leads at 24.3 GW under full overcast, with lignite and wind providing substantial baseload on a low-price morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 41%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
72%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.3 GW
Solar
58.8 GW
Total generation
+1.9 GW
Net export
17.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
214
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 24.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat pewter-grey sky with no direct sunlight—only uniform diffuse illumination; brown coal 9.4 GW fills the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low overcast; hard coal 4.9 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house and chimney stack trailing grey smoke, positioned just left of centre; wind onshore 9.4 GW spans the mid-background as a long line of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon above a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a compact wood-chip plant with a modest exhaust stack and log storage yard, tucked beside a small village; natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a single modern CCGT unit with a sleek exhaust stack and small vapour plume near the centre; hydro 0.9 GW is a small weir and run-of-river turbine house at the edge of a cold stream in the near foreground. The sky is a continuous blanket of 100% stratiform cloud, fully daylight at mid-morning but with no sun visible, casting even shadowless illumination across the entire landscape. Temperature near freezing: bare deciduous trees, frost lingering on brown grass, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. The low electricity price is conveyed by a calm, open, spacious composition with gentle atmospheric perspective fading into soft grey distances. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art—rich earthy tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous grey-pearl sky rendered with the subtlety of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, panel racking structures. No text, no labels.