Brown coal and gas dominate as overcast skies and light winds leave Germany importing 23 GW at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 4%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 24%
42%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.5 GW
Solar
36.6 GW
Total generation
-23.3 GW
Net import
145.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
393
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 7.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and a pair of shorter cooling towers; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground facility with wood-chip storage silos and low stacks; wind onshore 6.2 GW spans the right quarter as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the right foreground valley; solar 1.5 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light. Time is early dawn at 07:00 in April: the sky is a deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky. Complete 100% cloud cover forms a heavy, low, unbroken blanket of stratiform clouds pressing down oppressively, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is 7.6°C: early spring vegetation is sparse and muted — bare branches with the first pale green buds, damp brown fields. Wind is light at 5.1 km/h, so turbine blades turn languidly, smoke and steam rise nearly vertically. The landscape is a broad German lowland river valley with rolling terrain. 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 colour palette of slate greys, umber browns, and muted greens; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze softening distant elements; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. The mood is weighty and industrious. No text, no labels.