Wind leads at 16.5 GW but full overcast and high demand drive 12.2 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 20%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
64%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.5 GW
Solar
51.9 GW
Total generation
-12.2 GW
Net import
141.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
250
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a uniformly grey sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears just right of them as a smaller coal plant with a tall chimney stack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 6.3 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; wind onshore 12.6 GW spans much of the right half as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling green hills, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines standing in a hazy grey sea glimpsed beyond the coastline; solar 10.5 GW is represented as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only flat grey light with no sun visible; biomass 4.5 GW is shown as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and low smokestack amid trees in the middle ground; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water spilling over a weir in the far centre background. The lighting is full morning daylight at 08:00 in May but completely diffused—no shadows, no direct sun—under a 100% overcast ceiling of heavy, oppressive, low-hanging stratiform clouds that press down on the landscape, conveying the tension of a high-price grid state. The temperature is a cool 12°C spring morning: fresh green deciduous foliage on trees and grass, some morning dew. The atmosphere feels heavy, muted, and industrially charged. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour despite the grey palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements, dramatic compositional depth drawing the eye from foreground solar panels through the thermal plants to distant offshore turbines. Every technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.