Strong wind (31.4 GW) and heavy brown coal (10.6 GW) anchor a tight grid needing 7 GW net imports at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 3%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
31.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.5 GW
Solar
58.0 GW
Total generation
-7.0 GW
Net import
128.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
235
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German farmland, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller offshore turbines visible on a grey horizon line at far right. Brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, conveyor belts feeding raw lignite from an open-pit mine in the foreground. Natural gas 6.6 GW sits centre-left as two sleek CCGT combined-cycle units with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.2 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas units, identifiable by its rectangular boiler house and single large smokestack. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip storage silos and a modest steam stack nestled among bare early-spring trees at centre. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse visible in a river valley in the middle distance. Solar 1.5 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, but they are dark and inert, reflecting only grey sky — no sunshine whatsoever. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover; the time is 17:00 in March, rendering a dusk scene with a narrow band of deep orange-red glow barely visible at the lowest horizon, the sky above rapidly darkening to slate grey and charcoal, oppressive and heavy — reflecting the high 128.8 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is 11°C: the landscape shows late-winter bare deciduous trees with the faintest hints of early spring green buds, brown stubble fields, and damp earth. The atmosphere is thick, moody, and industrial. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated earth tones and steel greys, dramatic chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze and depth. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime melancholy crossed with industrial realism. No text, no labels.