Late-afternoon solar leads generation but heavy coal baseload and ~18.5 GW net imports fill a large supply gap under weak wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 43%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 19%
61%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.1 GW
Solar
42.4 GW
Total generation
-18.5 GW
Net import
130.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
68.0% / 139.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
284
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 18.1 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching the last low-angle light; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 4.7 GW appears behind them as a dark-bricked power station with twin rectangular stacks trailing grey smoke; natural gas 4.0 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with slender silver exhaust stacks and thin heat-shimmer plumes at centre-left; biomass 4.0 GW shows as a mid-ground wood-chip facility with a modest cylindrical stack and warm amber glow; wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as two distant three-blade turbines on a low ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a single turbine silhouette on a far haze-line; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam and spillway at far right with white water cascading. TIME: 17:00 dusk in early April — the sky is a heavy, oppressive canopy of 68% broken cloud in slate grey and muted ochre, with a thin band of orange-red glow hugging the western horizon where the sun is very low; upper sky darkening toward blue-grey. Temperature 9.9°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest green buds, damp brown grass, patches of cool mist near the ground. Near-still air, no motion in vegetation. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive — heavy industrial haze mingles with cloud, lending a brooding, oppressive quality reflecting the 130 EUR/MWh price. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the middle distance, cables sagging under load, symbolising the massive import flow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of umber, slate, ochre, and fading gold; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with sfumato haze layers; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.