Brown coal and imports dominate as full cloud cover suppresses solar and moderate wind falls short of Monday morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 21%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 21%
56%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
35.4 GW
Total generation
-24.9 GW
Net import
151.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
312
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; solar 7.3 GW occupies an equal portion as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat terrain, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under total overcast; wind onshore 5.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle ridges in the centre-right, rotors turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer in the right-centre; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with squat chimneys and small steam wisps; hard coal 3.6 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller coal plant with a single tall chimney and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; hydro 1.5 GW is a modest concrete dam and spillway visible in a valley at the far right; wind offshore 1.3 GW appears as tiny turbines on a distant misty horizon line suggesting the North Sea. The time is 7:00 AM in early May near dawn: the sky is a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of 100% cloud cover in tones of slate grey and pewter, with only the faintest pale luminosity along the eastern horizon suggesting pre-sunrise diffuse light — no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible, no warm tones. The landscape is spring-green with fresh deciduous foliage, damp grass, and plowed fields, temperature around 9°C giving a cool misty atmosphere. The oppressive overcast and heavy industrial atmosphere convey the elevated electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed panoramic oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower profile, PV module frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.