Brown coal, gas, and muted solar dominate as overcast skies and calm winds drive imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 23%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
55%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-8.7 GW
Net import
132.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
307
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; solar 9.2 GW occupies the centre-left as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat terrain, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey light under total cloud cover; natural gas 6.3 GW fills the centre-right as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.1 GW appears as a dark industrial facility with rectangular boiler houses and a single large smokestack; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with domed digesters and a modest stack emitting faint vapour; wind onshore 3.6 GW shows a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice towers in the middle distance, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 3.3 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a grey horizon over a flat, calm sea glimpsed in the far background right; hydro 1.4 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with modest white water visible at the far right edge. Time of day is dawn at 07:00 in May — the sky is a deep overcast blue-grey with no sun visible, the very first diffuse pre-dawn brightness lightening the eastern horizon behind heavy 98% cloud cover. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, befitting a 132.5 EUR/MWh price — low clouds press down on the landscape. Temperature is a cool 5.9°C in mid-May: spring vegetation is green but subdued, grass wet with dew, bare patches of mud near industrial sites. No wind motion in trees or flags. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich muted earth tones, visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with layers of haze between foreground industrial structures and distant turbines. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, aluminium PV frames, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower curvature with condensation plumes, CCGT heat recovery steam generator housings. The overall mood is contemplative industrial grandeur under a brooding sky. No text, no labels, no human figures.