Diffuse solar leads at 26.3 GW under full overcast, with brown coal at 8.1 GW and wind at 14.2 GW covering midday demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
77%
Renewable share
14.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.3 GW
Solar
59.5 GW
Total generation
-3.4 GW
Net import
75.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 14.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
170
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.3 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green spring meadows, their surfaces reflecting a uniform pewter-grey sky with no direct sunlight. Wind onshore 11.2 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles spread across the mid-ground hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.0 GW is visible in the far distance as a cluster of offshore turbines on a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 8.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast. Hard coal 2.7 GW sits beside it as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a tall brick chimney trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed between the coal plants and the wind turbines. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and a squat smokestack near the PV fields. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse along a stream in the lower left corner. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy unbroken blanket of grey stratus lit by diffuse late-morning daylight—no sun disk visible, no shadows on the ground, the light flat and even. The atmosphere feels slightly oppressive and weighty, reflecting a 75.5 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation is lush and green at 14.8°C, with wildflowers in meadows, birch and beech trees in fresh leaf. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic compositional balance between industrial infrastructure and pastoral landscape. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology elements. No text, no labels.