Wind leads at 20.1 GW but cold, overcast dawn forces 21.1 GW of thermal dispatch and 9.1 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
55%
Renewable share
20.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
47.1 GW
Total generation
-9.1 GW
Net import
135.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
298
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers receding into misty depth across a flat northern German plain; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea strip. Natural gas 9.0 GW occupies the centre-left as a large modern CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Brown coal 7.9 GW fills the left portion as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Hard coal 4.2 GW sits just left of centre as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall chimney and coal conveyors. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded storage dome and low stack near the centre. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible along a dark river in the foreground. Solar is virtually absent — no panels visible. The sky is pre-dawn at 06:00 in April: deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, heavy 100% cloud cover pressing low and oppressive, reflecting the 135.3 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is near freezing at 1.6 °C: frost rims the brown stubble fields and bare early-spring branches of birch and oak; patches of old snow linger in furrows. The air is still, with almost no motion in the grass, matching 3.6 km/h wind at ground level. Transmission pylons carry thick high-voltage lines across the scene, symbolising import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with mist and cold haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. Sombre, weighty, monumental industrial landscape at the threshold of dawn. No text, no labels.