Strong onshore wind and residual solar lead at 70% renewables, with coal and gas backstopping the approaching evening ramp.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 21%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
70%
Renewable share
24.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.0 GW
Solar
61.5 GW
Total generation
+0.3 GW
Net export
111.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 180.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
212
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills, blades visibly turning in brisk wind. Solar 13.0 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on low-angle ground mounts, catching diffuse grey light. Brown coal 7.9 GW fills the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting east. Natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 5.1 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a darker, blockier station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad industrial facility with a modest chimney and woodchip storage yard. Wind offshore 3.4 GW is glimpsed as a line of distant turbines on a hazy far horizon. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam and penstock at the far right edge beside a stream. Time is 17:00 late March dusk: the sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered stratiform clouds in slate-grey and muted pewter; a dim orange-red glow sits along the lower western horizon, rapidly fading; the upper sky darkens toward charcoal. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the faintest green buds, pale brown grass, patches of dark ploughed soil. Temperature around 9°C gives a cool, damp feeling with faint mist in low valleys. Wind at 22 km/h animates flags, grass, and turbine blades. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of umber, slate, muted gold, and deep green; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels, no people.