Wind leads at 12.6 GW but heavy overcast and evening demand drive 16.9 GW net imports and 122 EUR/MWh prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 12%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.9 GW
Solar
33.6 GW
Total generation
-16.9 GW
Net import
122.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 41.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
242
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into a heavy overcast sky; biomass 4.4 GW appears just left of centre as a pair of industrial wood-chip power stations with sloped fuel conveyors and modest chimneys trailing pale smoke; natural gas 3.1 GW sits at centre as two compact CCGT plants with slim silver exhaust stacks and visible heat haze; hard coal 2.2 GW occupies the centre-right as a dark brick coal station with a single tall stack and coal bunker; solar 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels, their surfaces dull and reflecting no sun under the grey sky; wind onshore 10.4 GW spans the entire right third and recedes deep into the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.2 GW is glimpsed on the far-right horizon as a faint row of turbines rising from a slate-grey sea; hydro 1.4 GW is represented by a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse beside a dark stream in the right foreground. The sky is a uniform, oppressive blanket of 100% cloud cover; the hour is 19:00 in May — late dusk with a thin band of orange-red glow along the very lowest horizon fading rapidly into dark grey and near-black overhead, no direct sunlight, ambient light dimming fast. Temperature is warm at nearly 20 °C; vegetation is lush late-spring green — beech and oak trees in full leaf, tall grasses, wildflowers — but darkened under fading twilight. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive, saturated with haze, the clouds pressing low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric perspective, warm industrial amber light from plant windows and stack tips contrasting with the cool grey-blue dusk. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV panel frame. No text, no labels.