Coal, gas, and imports fill a 12.6 GW gap as weak wind and early dawn limit renewables at sunrise.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 18%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 18%
52%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.4 GW
Solar
24.7 GW
Total generation
-12.6 GW
Net import
130.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
324
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in still air; natural gas 4.5 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat haze; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a dark industrial power station with conveyor belts and a single large rectangular chimney just right of centre; solar 4.4 GW is rendered as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right foreground, their surfaces dark and barely reflective under the faint pre-dawn light; wind onshore 2.3 GW shows as a modest row of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle hill to the far right, rotors motionless in the calm air; wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as two distant turbines on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack and steam wisp behind the solar field; hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far left edge. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, with the faintest pale lavender-pink glow along the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight yet, no warm tones overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a dense haze sitting low over the industrial landscape reflecting the high 130.2 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation — fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees — is muted in the dim light. Temperature around 9.5°C suggested by a thin ground mist in low areas. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth meets industrial realism — with rich, dark colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between glowing industrial lights and the deep pre-dawn sky. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools around the power stations. Engineering details are meticulous: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic profiles, panel wiring. No text, no labels.