Wind and solar lead renewables but 16 GW net imports and heavy thermal dispatch fill a cold morning gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 22%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 12%
64%
Renewable share
12.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.9 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
-16.0 GW
Net import
122.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
238
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 11.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, their rotors barely turning in near-calm air; solar 9.9 GW occupies the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on frosty ground, catching only the faintest diffuse pre-dawn glow; natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin white plumes; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick billowing steam columns into the cold air; hard coal 3.7 GW sits to the left of centre as a large conventional power station with rectangular boiler buildings and a tall chimney stack trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.5 GW appears as mid-ground industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small stacks; hydro 1.7 GW is visible in the far background as a concrete dam structure with spillway; offshore wind 0.8 GW is barely suggested on the distant horizon as a few tiny turbine silhouettes. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, 07:00 Berlin late April — no direct sunlight yet, only a pale cold luminance rising along the eastern horizon, the atmosphere heavy and oppressive reflecting a 122 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is 1.3°C: frost coats every surface — grass, metal railings, panel edges — and breath-like vapor rises from structures. Vegetation is early spring: bare branches with the first tentative pale-green buds. Cloud cover is zero, so the sky is clear but still deeply dark blue overhead transitioning to a thin band of cold steel-blue and pale gold at the horizon. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn sky. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. Transmission lines and high-voltage pylons thread through the scene suggesting the massive import flows. No text, no labels.