Wind and solar dominate at 72% renewables while brown coal and gas provide firm morning baseload at balanced generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 27%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
72%
Renewable share
17.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.1 GW
Solar
51.8 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
69.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
18.0% / 27.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
191
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 14.1 GW fills the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching low-angle morning sunlight on gentle hillsides; wind onshore 12.0 GW occupies the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling farmland; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on a hazy northern horizon above a sliver of grey sea; brown coal 6.2 GW dominates the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the sky, adjacent to a sprawling open-pit mine with terraced brown earth; natural gas 4.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a wood-clad industrial facility with a short smokestack and stacked timber nearby; hard coal 3.2 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single square cooling tower behind the gas units; hydro 1.5 GW is a modest dam with spillway tucked into a forested valley at the far left edge. Time is 08:00 in April: low-angle golden morning light streams from the east, casting long shadows across the landscape; the sky is mostly clear pale blue with a few wispy clouds at 18% coverage. Temperature is near freezing at 1.6°C: bare deciduous trees with the faintest green buds, frost on grass, patches of lingering mist in the valleys. Light breeze barely stirs the turbine blades. The atmosphere is crisp and cool but not oppressive, reflecting a moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.