Solar (28 GW) and wind (25.5 GW) dominate midday generation, driving 15.5 GW of net exports despite persistent coal dispatch.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 36%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
75%
Renewable share
25.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
78.7 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
55.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
64.0% / 206.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
178
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 28.0 GW dominates the foreground and right half as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting midday light; wind onshore 21.5 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in 20 km/h wind; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a distant grey sea; brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a lignite power station in the Rhineland style; hard coal 5.7 GW sits adjacent as a large coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and tall chimneys trailing thinner grey smoke; natural gas 6.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with single cylindrical exhaust stacks and modest heat-haze shimmer at centre-left; biomass 4.1 GW is a small wood-chip-fired plant with a squat stack and woodchip storage dome on the far left; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river in the left foreground. The sky is partly cloudy at 64% cover — broken cumulus clouds drifting across a bright midday March sky with direct sunshine breaking through gaps, casting dappled shadows across the landscape. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with first pale-green buds, brown-green grass, some yellow coltsfoot flowers at field edges. Temperature 8°C: cool, crisp atmosphere with clear distant visibility. The mood is bright but workmanlike — moderate price reflected in an open, airy sky without oppression. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, industrial piping. The scene reads as a masterwork panoramic industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.