Wind leads at 16.5 GW but pre-dawn darkness and 5 °C chill push coal and gas high, driving 9.6 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
54%
Renewable share
16.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.5 GW
Total generation
-9.6 GW
Net import
108.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
90% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
305
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.0 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills into deep distance; wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on a far grey-blue horizon line at upper right. Brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Natural gas 7.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, their control rooms glowing warmly. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits just behind the gas plant as a smaller cluster of rectangular boiler houses with a single squat chimney stack and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a domed digester and wood-chip storage silos, modestly lit. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete dam structure tucked into a valley at far centre-right, with a faint cascade of white water. No solar panels visible anywhere—zero solar generation. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey, 05:00 Berlin time: no direct sunlight, only the faintest pale steel-blue luminescence at the eastern horizon beneath a 90% overcast ceiling of heavy low stratus clouds pressing down oppressively, reflecting the 108.5 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is 5.3 °C; sparse early-spring vegetation, bare branches on scattered trees, patches of frost on grass. Light ground mist threads between the turbine bases. The atmosphere feels heavy, dense, expectant. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich's brooding skies merged with industrial realism—rich impasto brushwork, deep tonal contrasts between the dark overcast sky and warm sodium-lit industrial glow, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth across kilometres. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every CCGT stack. No text, no labels.