Wind leads at 24.8 GW with heavy coal and gas backup under full overcast and near-freezing temperatures.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 11%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
62%
Renewable share
24.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.3 GW
Solar
59.0 GW
Total generation
-2.4 GW
Net import
113.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
268
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.9 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across a flat North German plain, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the grey horizon where land meets sea. Brown coal 11.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, beside open-pit mine terraces. Natural gas 7.2 GW sits left of centre as compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a smaller classical coal plant with a single large chimney and coal conveyor, adjacent to the lignite complex. Solar 6.3 GW is rendered as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle hillside in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey diffuse light—no sunshine. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a modest wood-clad biomass CHP facility with a short stack and steam wisp near a farmstead. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river in the foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy uniform blanket of grey stratus pressing low; the time is 07:00 dawn in late March—pale blue-grey pre-dawn light seeps from the eastern horizon, no direct sun, no warm colours, only cold diffuse illumination. Temperature near 2°C: patches of frost on bare brown fields, leafless deciduous trees, last remnants of winter. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—a brooding, weighty sky bearing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered mist between the cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle and panel frame, dramatic tonal contrast between the pale horizon glow and the dark overcast above. No text, no labels.