Strong wind generation leads at 36 GW with brown coal and gas providing thermal backup under overcast pre-dawn skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 16%
73%
Renewable share
36.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
-1.1 GW
Net import
66.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.6°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 29.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as vast ranks of three-blade horizontal-axis turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across rolling central German farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.8 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly implied North Sea coast. Brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, flanked by conveyor belt gantries feeding raw brown coal. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails positioned centre-left. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a single older brick-and-steel power station with a tall square chimney behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and modest stack near the centre. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a dark stream in the left middle ground. Solar 0.2 GW is effectively absent — no panels visible. The sky is pre-dawn at 06:00 in March: deep blue-grey with the faintest band of cold pale light along the eastern horizon, 99% cloud cover forming a thick unbroken overcast pressing down oppressively, reinforcing the 66 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature near freezing: bare dormant trees, frost on brown winter grass, patches of old snow. Sodium-orange industrial lighting illuminates the coal and gas facilities. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and exhaust stack — evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.