Wind leads at 19.2 GW but high thermal output and 9.1 GW net imports reflect tight supply on a cold, overcast morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 10%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 18%
55%
Renewable share
19.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.2 GW
Solar
54.8 GW
Total generation
-9.1 GW
Net import
163.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
80% / 1.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
310
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 8.1 GW occupies the left-centre as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze; hard coal 6.7 GW sits just right of centre as a large coal-fired station with blocky boiler houses and a wide chimney trailing darker smoke; wind onshore 13.7 GW fills the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling farmland, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of taller turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey sea; solar 5.2 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflective under flat diffused light, no direct sun visible; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wooden-chip silo and a squat smokestack near the coal station; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete powerhouse at the base of a gentle valley in the foreground. The sky is 80% overcast with a thick blanket of stratocumulus in shades of pewter and slate, allowing only feeble diffused daylight — the time is 08:00 in late March so the sun is low and almost entirely hidden, casting a flat, cold, bluish-white ambient light with no shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Bare early-spring trees with swelling buds line the edges; frost lingers on dormant brown grass; the temperature reads near freezing. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, moody chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower reinforcement rib, and panel frame — a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.