Wind leads at 18.8 GW but heavy overcast and high demand drive lignite, gas, and 11 GW net imports at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
59%
Renewable share
18.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.3 GW
Solar
44.2 GW
Total generation
-11.1 GW
Net import
131.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
288
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by conveyor belts and open-pit terraces of raw lignite; natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapor trails; hard coal 3.8 GW appears just right of centre as a single large conventional power station with a rectangular chimney and coal bunkers; wind onshore 14.8 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers set across rolling green spring hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.0 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in terrain; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-fired CHP plant with a rounded silo and modest stack; hydro 1.6 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with white spillway foam in a valley at lower-right; solar 1.3 GW is a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a hillside catching no direct light, their surfaces dull and reflective only of grey sky. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 in May — the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn wash with the faintest pale band of cold light along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, no warm colours in the sky. Complete 100% cloud cover forms a low oppressive ceiling pressing down on the landscape, evoking the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 12°C spring morning — fresh green deciduous foliage on trees, grass bright but muted by the flat light, patches of morning mist lingering in valleys. Power lines on steel lattice pylons recede into the hazy distance connecting all sources. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of slate-blue, moss-green, ash-grey, and warm industrial orange from facility lighting; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective; meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and panel frame; the scene reads as a masterwork Romantic industrial landscape. No text, no labels.