Wind onshore leads at 12.6 GW but heavy thermal dispatch and 17.6 GW net imports meet cold morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 5%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 15%
57%
Renewable share
13.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
37.9 GW
Total generation
-17.6 GW
Net import
139.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
282
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.6 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling northern German hills, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 6.9 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall narrow exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.6 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of industrial biogas facilities with rounded digesters and short stacks; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway in a narrow valley at far left; solar 2.0 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, panels dark and barely catching any light; wind offshore 1.0 GW is faintly visible as a few turbines on the far-right horizon over a sliver of grey sea. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in late April — the sky is deep blue-grey with a faint band of cold pale light along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet, ground still in near-darkness lit by sodium-orange industrial lights around the power stations. Temperature is near freezing at 1.4 °C: frost edges the new spring grass, bare-branched trees are just beginning to bud. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, slightly hazy — reflecting the high electricity price of 139 EUR/MWh — with low mist clinging to valleys. Clear sky overhead with no clouds, stars still faintly visible at the zenith. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of slate blues, ash greys, warm sodium oranges, and cold whites; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic atmospheric depth and Romantic grandeur applied to an industrial landscape. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and panel frame. No text, no labels.