Wind power leads at 21.2 GW under full overcast as thermal units firm supply on a cold, cloudy May morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 23%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
21.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.2 GW
Solar
45.1 GW
Total generation
-0.4 GW
Net import
78.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.0°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across a flat North German plain, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.3 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea sliver. Solar 10.2 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as large arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on open fields, their glass surfaces dark and reflecting only grey sky — no sunshine. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered centre-left as a cluster of industrial biomass plants with squat chimneys emitting thin pale exhaust. Brown coal 4.0 GW fills the left portion as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes drifting eastward, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and ash-coloured spoil heaps. Natural gas 3.1 GW sits between the cooling towers and biomass plants as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square stack at the far left edge. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small river weir with foaming spillway in the near foreground. Time of day is dawn at 07:00 — the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn light with no direct sun, the eastern horizon showing only a faint pale-steel brightening behind unbroken 100% cloud cover. The atmosphere is heavy, overcast, slightly oppressive reflecting 78 EUR/MWh pricing. Temperature is 2°C: frost dusts the foreground grass and bare hedgerows, early spring vegetation is sparse with only the first tentative green buds on leafless trees. Wind visibly bends the grass and drives the steam plumes sideways. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial realism — rich muted earth tones, cool blue-greys and slate greens, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam, fine engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.