Wind leads at 25.5 GW but coal and gas must fill the pre-dawn gap under heavy cloud, driving elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 18%
57%
Renewable share
25.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.7 GW
Total generation
-2.8 GW
Net import
137.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.3°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
303
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 19.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, arrayed across rolling early-spring farmland with sparse brown-green grass and bare-branched trees. Wind offshore 6.2 GW appears on the far right horizon as a distant line of offshore turbines barely visible through haze above a dark North Sea sliver. Brown coal 9.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky, surrounded by excavated open-pit terrain in layered ochre and grey. Hard coal 6.7 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a pair of tall rectangular boiler houses with prominent smokestacks trailing lighter grey exhaust. Natural gas 6.4 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with sleek single exhaust stacks and heat recovery steam generators, their stainless-steel housings catching faint ambient light. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered centre-right as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a conical fuel silo and a single low stack emitting wispy smoke. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible in a dark stream in the lower centre foreground. Time is 06:00 pre-dawn in late March: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, 91% cloud cover forming a thick oppressive ceiling of stratiform clouds pressing down. No solar panels anywhere. Temperature is 3°C: a thin frost coats the ground and condensation forms on metal structures. The atmosphere feels heavy and brooding, reflecting the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, saturated colour palette of slate blues, warm coal-fire oranges, cool steel greys—with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective causing distant turbines to fade into mist, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting casting sodium-yellow pools against the blue-grey pre-dawn. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: lattice tower cross-bracing, turbine blade pitch mechanisms, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels.