Wind dominates at 21.4 GW pre-dawn, but 8.2 GW of coal and biomass baseload and 2.4 GW net imports fill the gap with no solar.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.9 GW
Total generation
-2.4 GW
Net import
93.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
159
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers receding across a flat northern German plain into deep pre-dawn darkness; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line suggesting the North Sea; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; biomass 4.2 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with corrugated metal cladding and a single modest stack emitting thin vapour, warmly lit windows; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a tall single exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned left-centre; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller power station with a square brick chimney emitting faint smoke, tucked behind the gas plant; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a narrow river in the foreground reflecting the artificial lights. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the faintest pale luminance on the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight, stars still faintly visible overhead; clear sky with zero cloud cover. The air feels cold — bare early-spring trees with only the smallest buds, frost on the grass catching the industrial glow. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a faint amber haze from the industrial facilities reflecting the high electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, Romantic composition with a lone figure in silhouette observing from a low hill — but every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower fluting, every CCGT exhaust stack rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.