Low wind and full overcast drive heavy coal and gas dispatch alongside diffuse solar, requiring 23 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 30%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
53%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.2 GW
Solar
37.7 GW
Total generation
-23.1 GW
Net import
147.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
331
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into a leaden sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears just to the left of centre as two smaller coal-fired units with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; natural gas 5.2 GW fills the centre as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls; solar 11.2 GW spans the right third as an enormous field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under complete cloud cover with no direct sunshine; biomass 4.3 GW appears in the right-centre as a cluster of wood-chip-fed generating stations with modest round silos and thin stacks emitting faint wisps; hydro 2.0 GW is visible in the far right as a concrete run-of-river dam with water spilling over a weir; wind onshore 2.1 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by two tiny turbines visible on the far horizon line. The time is 8 AM on a spring morning — full daylight but entirely overcast, a uniform blanket of heavy grey stratus clouds from horizon to horizon, zero direct sunlight, flat shadowless illumination. The atmosphere feels dense and oppressive, hazy with industrial moisture and coal-fired steam. Temperature is mild at 12.6°C; spring vegetation is fresh green — young leaves on birch and beech trees, bright grass in the foreground — but subdued under the grey pall. The landscape is a broad German lowland plain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but depicting an industrial energy landscape — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of mist and steam, a palette of slate grey, ash white, muted green, and warm ochre from industrial lighting. Each power technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel racking, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. The overall mood is solemn and weighty — a working grid under strain. No text, no labels, no human figures.