Wind leads at 17.7 GW but heavy cloud and a 14.6 GW import need keep coal and gas dispatched on a cold April morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
66%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.3 GW
Solar
45.3 GW
Total generation
-14.6 GW
Net import
138.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
235
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling central-German farmland, their rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.3 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a row of turbines fading into a grey coastal haze. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky. Natural gas 5.8 GW appears centre-left as two compact modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails. Hard coal 3.2 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker, older facility with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fed CHP plants with low cylindrical silos and thin wisps of pale smoke. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a cold stream in the middle distance. Solar 6.3 GW is shown as several large ground-mounted arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dark and matte, reflecting almost nothing under the heavy clouds. The sky is a uniform 93% overcast blanket of low stratus in tones of slate grey and pewter, with only the faintest hint of pale blue-grey pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon — it is 07:00 dawn, no direct sun visible, the landscape illuminated by diffuse, cold, flat light. The temperature is near freezing: patches of frost glisten on brown early-spring grass, bare birch and beech trees show only the first tiny buds, and the earth looks damp and heavy. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, befitting a 138 EUR/MWh price — low clouds press down on the industrial skyline, the air thick with moisture and coal-plant vapour. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, moody chiaroscuro, with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV module frame, and smokestack. No text, no labels, no human figures.