Wind leads at 17.3 GW but overcast skies and 12 GW net imports keep coal and gas running at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 4%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
57%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.6 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
-12.0 GW
Net import
122.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
298
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills into the distance; brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; natural gas 6.3 GW appears left of centre as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and low rectangular turbine halls; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a smaller power station with a single tall chimney and coal conveyors; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and modest steam stack; wind offshore 2.0 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway nestled in a wooded valley at far left; solar 1.6 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky with no sunlight on them. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in late April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn luminance along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, 100% cloud cover forming a continuous heavy overcast layer pressing down oppressively. Temperature is 6.2°C: spring vegetation is emerging but still muted, grass is damp, bare-branched trees are just budding. Wind at 14.1 km/h animates the turbine blades in visible rotation and bends the grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive — dense low clouds, industrial haze mingling with steam plumes, an oppressive weight to the air conveying the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, deep greens, warm industrial oranges from sodium lights on the power stations, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with mist in the valleys, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.