Wind leads at 22 GW with brown coal and gas supporting; 3.9 GW net imports cover the pre-dawn demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.2 GW
Solar
40.1 GW
Total generation
-3.9 GW
Net import
83.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right half and background as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 4.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea line. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 4.3 GW sits left-center as a mid-sized plant with a tall rectangular boiler house, wood-chip conveyors, and a single chimney trailing thin grey smoke. Natural gas 4.1 GW appears center-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery steam generator housing. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller coal plant further left with a single cooling tower and coal bunker. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small river weir and powerhouse at the lower-left foreground. Solar 1.2 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and reflecting only grey sky, generating almost nothing. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 in late April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, no warm tones. Cloud cover is 96%, so the sky is a thick unbroken ceiling of stratiform clouds pressing low and heavy, creating an oppressive atmosphere befitting the 83.2 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is near 4°C: bare branches on scattered trees, early spring grass still pale and frost-tinged, breath-like mist near ground level. Wind speed is moderate, visible in the steady rotation of turbine blades and gentle movement of steam plumes drifting left. The landscape is flat central German agricultural plain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich dark palette of slate blues, charcoal greys, muted ochres, and cream-white steam. Visible thick brushwork in the clouds and fields, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. Atmospheric perspective fades the distant wind farm into blue haze. No text, no labels.