Wind leads at 17.7 GW with heavy coal and gas backup under full overcast at pre-dawn, pushing prices above 109 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 15%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
59%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
39.3 GW
Total generation
+1.4 GW
Net export
109.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
281
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.8 GW spans the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles receding into atmospheric depth across rolling hills; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a faint line of turbines on a dark grey sea horizon. Brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, beside open-pit conveyors and boiler houses. Natural gas 5.5 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze. Hard coal 3.4 GW sits just left of centre as a smaller power station with a single large chimney and coal stockpiles. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest smokestack. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley between hills. Solar 0.2 GW is effectively absent — no panels visible. Time is 05:00 in mid-May: pre-dawn deep blue-grey sky with the faintest pale streak on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, landscape mostly in darkness with sodium-orange industrial lighting illuminating the power stations and steam plumes from below. Cloud cover is total — a low, heavy, unbroken overcast pressing down on the scene. Temperature is 6.4°C — fresh green spring vegetation on the hills but with a cold, damp atmosphere; slight mist in the valleys. The mood is oppressive and dense, reflecting the high electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of deep navy, slate grey, warm sodium orange, and cool blue-green; visible textured brushwork; atmospheric perspective with industrial haze softening distant turbines; meticulous engineering detail on turbine blades, cooling tower curvature, CCGT stacks, and coal conveyors. No text, no labels.