Strong onshore wind at 30 GW dominates under full overcast, with brown coal and gas providing 11 GW of thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 18%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
80%
Renewable share
35.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.6 GW
Solar
64.7 GW
Total generation
+1.4 GW
Net export
79.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 7.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
140
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 30.4 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right half and extending into the centre as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching to the horizon across flat North German farmland, their blades visibly spinning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 4.6 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines barely visible through haze on the far-right horizon above a grey sea inlet. Solar 11.6 GW occupies a modest strip in the centre-left foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on a flat field, but they are dull and reflect no direct sunlight—only the flat grey overcast above. Brown coal 6.8 GW fills the left quarter as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast ceiling, flanked by lignite conveyor belts and a visible open-pit mine edge. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack near the gas plant. Hard coal 2.0 GW is a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and a single shorter stack with faint grey emissions, tucked behind the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine housing visible along a river in the centre foreground. Time is 3 PM in early March: full daylight but entirely diffuse and shadowless under 100% heavy grey stratiform cloud cover—no sun visible, no blue sky, the light is flat and cold-white. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and humid, befitting a high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 12°C: grass is beginning to green, bare deciduous trees show the first swollen buds, patches of mud along field tracks. Wind at 15.7 km/h bends the grass and causes subtle movement in the turbine blades. The overall palette is muted greys, olive greens, and industrial ochres. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with receding haze—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, PV panel framing, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.