Overcast spring morning: wind and diffuse solar lead at 66% renewables, but 7.5 GW net imports needed.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 26%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 14%
66%
Renewable share
17.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.7 GW
Solar
56.4 GW
Total generation
-7.5 GW
Net import
109.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.8°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
235
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 12.4 GW dominates the right third of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green spring farmland, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 4.6 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of offshore turbines on a grey sea horizon. Solar 14.7 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on metal racks across flat agricultural land — panels reflecting only the dull grey of the overcast sky, no direct sunlight, no glare. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the heavy cloud layer. Hard coal 4.9 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a large coal-fired plant with tall rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts carrying black coal, and a single large smokestack with pale exhaust. Natural gas 6.1 GW is rendered centre-left as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine units with sleek cylindrical exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, modest heat shimmer rising from their outlets. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a wood-chip-fired industrial plant with a tall single stack and timber storage yard near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a stream in the left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast — a heavy, uniform blanket of low stratus cloud in shades of pewter and ash, pressing down oppressively, conveying the high electricity price. It is full daytime at 10:00 in April but there is no direct sun — the light is flat, diffuse, and cool. Temperature 8.8°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches on some trees, fresh green shoots on fields, patches of last autumn's brown grass. Transmission pylons and high-voltage lines cross the middle ground, connecting the diverse generation sources. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic cloud rendering — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.