Strong onshore wind and overcast-dimmed solar drive 80% renewables; full cloud cover and import need lift prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 30%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
21.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.0 GW
Solar
53.7 GW
Total generation
-8.7 GW
Net import
90.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
143
gCO₂/kWh
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Onshore wind 17.8 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly turning in brisk wind. Solar 16.0 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle slope, their surfaces dull and unreflective under heavy overcast. Brown coal 5.8 GW fills the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting eastward, alongside conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling power station. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a cylindrical silo and modest smokestack. Wind offshore 3.7 GW is suggested on the distant horizon as a faint line of turbines above a grey sea sliver. Natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, placed left of centre. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller conventional plant with a tall chimney beside a coal yard, near the gas plant. Hydro 1.9 GW is a run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river cutting through the middle ground. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform, heavy blanket of stratus clouds in tones of pewter and slate grey — no sun visible, diffuse flat daylight of midday, no shadows on the ground. Temperature 13.5 °C: lush June vegetation but cool-looking, damp atmosphere with a slight haze. Wind at 17 km/h animates grass, leaves, and cloud texture. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting elevated electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the cloud mass, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack. No text, no labels.