Wind leads at 16.7 GW but coal and gas fill a 9.3 GW import gap on a dark, overcast pre-dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 20%
55%
Renewable share
16.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.3 GW
Total generation
-9.2 GW
Net import
111.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.4°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
311
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central-German farmland, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 8.1 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belt infrastructure and ash-coloured lignite stockpiles. Natural gas 6.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with slim exhaust stacks and a single shorter cooling tower, warm amber light glowing from its control building. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker, soot-stained power station with a tall rectangular boiler house and twin concrete chimneys. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with wooden-chip storage silos and modest stacks trailing thin wisps of smoke. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is glimpsed in the far distance as faint silhouettes of jacket-foundation turbines on a grey horizon line. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure with a cascading spillway in the far left valley. No solar panels anywhere; no sunshine. The sky is pre-dawn at 05:00 in late April: a deep blue-grey wash with the faintest pale band of cold light along the eastern horizon, the rest still effectively night. 89% cloud cover creates a heavy, oppressive overcast ceiling pressing low, reinforcing the high-price atmosphere. Temperature 6.4°C means early spring: bare branches on some trees, fresh green shoots on others, thin frost on grass. Sodium-orange streetlights and facility lighting cast warm pools across access roads and industrial yards. The overall mood is weighty and industrial. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and the dark pre-dawn sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.