Strong onshore wind leads at 30.7 GW but 8.5 GW net imports fill the gap under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 53%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 6%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 7%
80%
Renewable share
37.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.4 GW
Solar
57.5 GW
Total generation
-8.5 GW
Net import
109.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 25 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 30.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat, brown-green late-winter plain, rotors spinning visibly in strong wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea inlet. Brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes shearing sideways in the wind, beside a conveyor belt of dark lignite. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits adjacent as a blocky coal-fired plant with tall square stacks trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 3.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and a modest heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plants and the wind turbines. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with rounded wood-chip silos and low chimneys emitting pale vapour, set in the mid-ground. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a canal in the lower foreground. Solar 3.4 GW appears as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left foreground, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the heavy overcast. The sky is completely overcast at 100 percent cloud cover — a uniform, oppressive blanket of grey-white stratus pressing low, no blue visible anywhere, light diffuse and flat. Time is 08:00 morning: full daylight but muted, no shadows, the landscape lit evenly with a cold, silvery-grey tone. Temperature is 3.4 °C: bare deciduous trees, dormant brown grass, patches of frost on field edges, no snow. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly — the thick clouds seem to weigh on the landscape. Transmission pylons recede into the haze connecting all sources. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.