Wind onshore leads at 11.5 GW; brown coal, biomass, and gas fill the pre-dawn residual load gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 7%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
70%
Renewable share
14.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.2 GW
Solar
31.4 GW
Total generation
-0.5 GW
Net import
103.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
208
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling central-German hills; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into the pre-dawn sky; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip conveyors, warm amber light glowing from its windows; natural gas 3.2 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as silhouettes of turbines above a distant grey sea line; solar 2.2 GW is represented by rows of crystalline PV panels in a near field, dark and inactive, catching no light; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a single smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt, modest smoke rising; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with spilling water in the middle distance. Time of day is 06:00 in early May — a pale pre-dawn glow of deep blue-grey and cold lavender spreads just above the eastern horizon, no direct sun yet, the sky overhead still near-black with faint stars fading; ground frost glistens on short spring grass and bare early-season trees just beginning to bud. Temperature is near freezing, breath-like mist hangs in low hollows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty sky pressing down. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, slate blue, ochre, and warm amber from industrial lights; visible confident brushwork with atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro; meticulous technical accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower geometry, aluminium PV frames, and CCGT stacks; sodium streetlights cast orange pools along an access road; the scene feels monumental, contemplative, a masterwork painting of the industrial-energy landscape at the threshold between night and day. No text, no labels.