Wind leads at 18.5 GW but heavy cloud, fading light, and high demand drive coal and gas hard, requiring ~10.9 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 6%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
52%
Renewable share
18.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.4 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
138.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91% / 109.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
334
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the heavy sky; wind onshore 15.3 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling farmland, blades turning at moderate speed; natural gas 9.0 GW appears left-of-centre as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with twin chimneys and a visible coal conveyor; wind offshore 3.2 GW is glimpsed in the far-right background as a line of turbines on the distant grey horizon where land meets sea; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and a pile of woodchip feedstock in its yard; solar 3.4 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir with a turbine house along a stream in the foreground valley. Time of day is 17:00 in mid-March central Germany: the sky is dusk, with a narrow band of deep orange-red light glowing along the very low western horizon, rapidly fading upward into slate-grey and charcoal cloud cover at 91 percent overcast; the upper sky is already darkening toward navy. Temperature is near 8 °C: the landscape is late-winter brown-green, bare deciduous trees with just the faintest hint of early buds, patches of damp ploughed earth. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 138.6 EUR/MWh price — low visibility, thick humid air, a weight pressing down on the industrial panorama. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, moody colour palette of umber, slate, dull orange, and iron-grey; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with haze softening distant turbines; meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.