Strong wind and heavy coal anchor a cloudy April morning as Germany imports 10 GW to meet demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 7%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 15%
63%
Renewable share
23.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.5 GW
Solar
52.4 GW
Total generation
-10.0 GW
Net import
123.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.5°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
255
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles, arrayed across rolling green-brown early-spring hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 7.1 GW appears in the far right background as a row of turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive Lausitz-style lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky. Natural gas 6.1 GW sits left of centre as a compact modern CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks and a low rectangular turbine hall. Hard coal 5.1 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a timber-clad biomass CHP facility with a modest chimney and stacked wood-chip piles, positioned centre-left. Solar 3.5 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right middle ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the flat grey light, no sunshine whatsoever. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible at the base of a gentle valley in the centre. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy pewter-grey ceiling pressing down oppressively, no blue sky visible, evoking the high 123 EUR/MWh price with a brooding, heavy atmosphere. The time is 08:00 in April: full diffuse daylight but completely shadowless, flat illumination, no direct sun. Temperature 8.5°C: trees show the earliest buds of spring on bare grey-brown branches, grass is damp and pale green, patches of mud and last autumn's brown leaves. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines with lattice steel pylons cross the scene, hinting at the large import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The mood is industrious, weighty, and contemplative. No text, no labels.