Wind leads at 19.5 GW but heavy overcast and high demand keep coal and gas firmly dispatched with 9.6 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 4%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
60%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.7 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
-9.6 GW
Net import
122.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 6.4 GW appears centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and shimmering heat haze; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind them as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular stack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; wind onshore 16.6 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling green spring fields and low ridges, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey estuary; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a modest chimney and timber storage yard; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete powerhouse nestled beside a swollen spring river in the mid-ground; solar 1.7 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 in late April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale band of pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, all ground detail lit by diffuse twilight and the amber glow of sodium streetlights on nearby roads. Temperature is cool at 6 °C: bare branches mix with fresh pale-green spring buds on scattered birch and beech trees; patches of morning mist cling to low meadows. Cloud cover is 100 percent: a solid, heavy, oppressive blanket of stratiform cloud stretches unbroken across the entire sky, pressing down on the landscape, conveying the high electricity price as atmospheric weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark tonal palette of slate greys, muted greens, and warm industrial amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of mist and steam; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and panel frame. No text, no labels.