Wind leads at 22.8 GW under full overcast; coal and gas backstop a 2 GW net import gap at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 16%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
22.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.1 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
-1.9 GW
Net import
71.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.9 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling farmland; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a river valley; solar 7.1 GW occupies the centre-right as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on flat ground, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light, no sunshine; biomass 4.6 GW appears in the centre as a medium-scale industrial plant with a tall stack emitting thin white exhaust and woodchip storage silos; brown coal 3.8 GW fills the left portion as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the overcast, alongside a lignite conveyor belt and excavation pit edge; natural gas 3.0 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low turbine hall; hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas facility with a single square chimney and coal bunker; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a foreground stream. Time of day: early dawn at 07:00 in late April — the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn wash, no direct sunlight, the horizon shows only the faintest pale luminescence behind the thick 100% cloud ceiling, creating a flat, heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 71.4 EUR/MWh price. Temperature 4.3°C: grass is pale green with frost still visible on fence posts and panel frames; bare branches mix with early spring buds on scattered birch and beech trees. Ground-level wind is calm at 4 km/h so foreground grasses are still, but turbine blades above turn steadily in upper-level winds. Steam from the cooling towers rises vertically in the calm air, spreading into the low grey ceiling. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of mist between the mid-ground power stations and distant offshore turbines. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.