Wind and brown coal anchor supply as full overcast suppresses solar, driving imports of 12.3 GW and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
57%
Renewable share
17.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.3 GW
Solar
43.3 GW
Total generation
-12.3 GW
Net import
131.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
298
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.3 GW dominates the right third of the scene as long receding rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat northern plain, their blades barely turning in still air; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines emerging from a grey North Sea sliver. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 3.9 GW sits beside it as a smaller coal plant with rectangular chimneys and dark conveyor belts of fuel. Natural gas 6.2 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall singular exhaust stacks venting thin translucent plumes. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and low stacks in the centre. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam and spillway set into a wooded hillside in the centre-right middle distance. Solar 1.3 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels in the foreground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under heavy clouds. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn at 06:00, with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight—no warm tones, no golden glow, just a cold hint of approaching day. Overhead the sky is a uniform 100% cloud blanket, heavy and oppressive, conveying the 131 EUR/MWh price tension. The landscape is spring: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees at 12°C, damp atmosphere with low mist clinging to the ground between the turbines. Sodium-orange streetlights still glow along a road threading through the scene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the distance, Caspar David Friedrich's moody grandeur applied to an industrial energy landscape. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and gas-stack flange. No text, no labels.