Pre-dawn import dependency as onshore wind and coal anchor domestic supply under full overcast at 107 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 0%
Biomass 18%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 20%
58%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
23.6 GW
Total generation
-12.1 GW
Net import
107.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
284
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.1 GW spans the right third of the scene as a long ridge of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers, blades turning almost imperceptibly in near-calm air; brown coal 4.7 GW dominates the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes into the heavy sky; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale industrial boiler buildings with tall rectangular stacks and a conveyor feeding wood-chip fuel, positioned left-of-centre; natural gas 4.0 GW sits at centre as two compact combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with sleek single exhaust stacks venting thin white exhaust; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with dark spillway water visible in the middle distance; hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a single older power station with a large chimney and coal bunker at the far left edge. The time is 05:00 in early May: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight, no solar panels anywhere; the horizon shows the faintest hint of steel-blue lightening in the east but the landscape is still essentially dark, lit by amber sodium streetlights along an industrial road and warm glowing windows in the plant control rooms. Full 100% cloud cover creates a low, heavy, oppressive overcast ceiling pressing down on the scene — reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 10°C; spring vegetation is fresh green but muted in the dim light, dew visible on grass. Wind is nearly still at 2.6 km/h so flags hang limp and turbine blades barely rotate. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich, dark colour palette of indigo, slate grey, ochre, and umber; visible confident brushwork; dramatic atmospheric depth with mist pooling in the valley between the coal plant and the wind ridge; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and gas-turbine exhaust cowl. No text, no labels.