Wind leads at 21 GW but heavy cloud, negligible solar, and high demand drive 11.9 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
21.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.0 GW
Solar
43.3 GW
Total generation
-11.9 GW
Net import
131.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
245
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.4 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across a flat northern German plain, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.6 GW appears in the far right background as a line of tall turbines on monopile foundations visible through haze on a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 5.8 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower with a thinner steam column. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears behind the gas plant as a single large boiler house with a tall rectangular chimney and coal conveyor belts. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with cylindrical wood-pellet silos and modest stacks with pale exhaust. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam and penstock structure nestled in a distant wooded valley at centre. Solar 1.0 GW is barely visible — a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, utterly dark and reflectionless under the heavy clouds, contributing almost nothing. The time is early dawn, 06:00 in late April: the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn wash with the faintest pale steel-blue lightening at the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight; the landscape is lit primarily by sodium-orange industrial lights on the power stations and faint ambient twilight. Temperature is 4.3 °C — bare early-spring trees with only the first tiny buds, patches of frost on brown grass, cold breath of steam from every stack. Cloud cover is total, 99%, a low oppressive ceiling of stratus pressing down on the scene, reinforcing the high-price tension. The atmosphere feels heavy, dense, industrial. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale meeting industrial reality — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels.