Solar at 34.5 GW leads a 71.5% renewable mix under clear April skies, with thermal plants still providing 18.3 GW of baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 54%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
72%
Renewable share
5.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.5 GW
Solar
64.1 GW
Total generation
+0.9 GW
Net export
79.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 198.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
190
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled southward and glinting intensely in brilliant morning sunlight. Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the far left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, adjacent to a lignite strip mine with terraced earth. Natural gas 7.6 GW appears left of centre as a compact CCGT power station with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.6 GW is rendered as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and coal conveyor belts, just behind the gas plant. Wind onshore 4.7 GW is shown as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the mid-ground, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as tiny distant turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 4.5 GW is a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low smokestack near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley at far right. The sky is perfectly clear, zero cloud cover, with full bright morning daylight at 09:00 in April—sun low-to-mid in the eastern sky casting long warm shadows across the landscape. Temperature is a cool 4.7 °C: early spring vegetation is pale green with bare branches on some trees, frost lingering in shaded hollows. The atmosphere carries a faintly heavy, warm-toned quality reflecting the moderately high electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV module gridlines, cooling tower parabolic geometry, conveyor structures. No text, no labels.