Overcast dawn limits solar; brown coal, gas, and wind lead generation as 17.8 GW of imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 13%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
56%
Renewable share
10.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.9 GW
Solar
38.4 GW
Total generation
-17.8 GW
Net import
154.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
306
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.6 GW sits behind them as a smaller conventional power station with rectangular boiler house and single chimney trailing dark smoke; solar 4.9 GW occupies a modest mid-ground strip as aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a flat field, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey cloud light, no sunshine; wind onshore 10.2 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning at moderate speed in the breeze; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by two distant turbines visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and wood-chip conveyor belt, small steam exhaust, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with rushing water in the foreground stream. The sky is entirely overcast at 100 percent cloud cover, heavy and oppressive to reflect the 154 EUR/MWh price — no sun breaks through. Lighting is pale pre-dawn: a deep blue-grey tone with the faintest hint of lighter grey on the eastern horizon, 07:00 Berlin time in May. Temperature 8.5°C: spring vegetation is lush green but glistening with cold morning dew; scattered birch and beech trees show full young leaves. Moderate wind bends tall grasses. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between dark foreground and luminous cloud ceiling. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete shell, every PV panel's cell grid. No text, no labels.