Pre-dawn thermal reliance: coal and gas supply over half of generation as solar is absent and net imports reach 8.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 16%
47%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.3 GW
Total generation
-8.9 GW
Net import
123.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
356
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 7.0 GW dominates the centre-left as a row of tall CCGT combined-cycle gas turbine units with slender exhaust stacks venting pale steam; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 5.3 GW sits adjacent as a blocky coal-fired power station with a single large chimney and conveyor belt feeding a coal pile; wind onshore 7.9 GW stretches across the right third of the composition as a long line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and glowing furnace mouth; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-right foreground. Time is 05:00 Berlin: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn with the faintest pale band of cold light along the eastern horizon—no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky, most illumination comes from sodium-orange industrial lighting on the plant structures and a few lit windows. Overcast ceiling at 100%, low heavy clouds pressing down oppressively, reinforcing the high electricity price atmosphere. Temperature is 5°C early spring: bare-branched trees with the earliest tiny buds, damp brown-green grass, frost on metal railings, breath-vapour visible. No solar panels anywhere—zero solar output. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn sky, atmospheric depth with mist and steam layers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.