Wind and diffuse solar lead at 74.6% renewables, but 9.8 GW net imports cover a cool morning's elevated demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 28%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
75%
Renewable share
19.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.8 GW
Solar
53.7 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
117.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
177
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.5 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across gentle rolling hills, blades turning moderately in light wind. Solar 14.8 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under the heavy overcast. Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey sky, conveyor belts carrying dark brown fuel visible at ground level. Wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon, partially obscured by haze. Natural gas 4.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling tower, positioned centre-left, with a thin heat shimmer rising from its stacks. Biomass 4.5 GW sits as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded dome digester and a modest smokestack with faint emissions, placed in the mid-ground left of centre. Hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a smaller coal station with a single rectangular boiler house and one square chimney trailing pale smoke, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the far right background. The sky is 94% overcast — a thick, unbroken ceiling of low stratus clouds in tones of slate grey and dull pewter, oppressive and heavy, conveying the high electricity price. Direct sunlight is virtually absent; the scene is lit by flat, diffuse morning daylight at 08:00 in April, cool and shadowless. The landscape shows early spring — bare deciduous trees with just the faintest green buds, pale dormant grass, patches of mud. Temperature is near freezing: a thin ground mist clings to low areas. The atmosphere is damp and heavy. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered recession, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime industrial scale meeting nature, warm earth tones in the foreground contrasting with cool blue-greys in the distance. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature. No text, no labels.