Wind and solar lead at 80.9% renewable share; coal and gas fill residual load on a cool, overcast April morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 31%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
81%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.4 GW
Solar
47.1 GW
Total generation
-2.9 GW
Net import
69.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88% / 30.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
129
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far right background as a distant row of turbines on the grey horizon line of the North Sea. Solar 14.4 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland, reflecting the diffuse grey light. Brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the cold air. Biomass 4.5 GW sits centre-left as a pair of wood-clad industrial biomass plants with conveyor belts and moderate stacks trailing wispy grey exhaust. Natural gas 3.6 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and clean metallic housings, positioned just left of centre. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular brick chimney and coal hopper visible behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a valley in the distant centre background. The sky is 88% overcast with a thick blanket of grey stratiform clouds, but it is full daytime at 08:00 in April so the scene is lit by cool, flat, diffuse daylight—no direct sun visible, no harsh shadows, but full ambient brightness. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Temperature is 1.4 °C: bare deciduous trees with only the faintest buds, frost lingering on grass, breath-visible cold. Vegetation is dormant early spring—brown and grey-green fields, no flowers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour in muted tones of slate, pearl-grey, umber, and sage; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with correct proportions, three-blade rotors, lattice sub-structures on offshore foundations, crystalline cell patterns on PV modules, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. The composition conveys the quiet industrial grandeur of a modern energy landscape on a cold overcast morning. No text, no labels, no human figures.