Wind leads at 20.5 GW with lignite and coal providing 13.9 GW of baseload under full overcast at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 21%
63%
Renewable share
20.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.4 GW
Solar
43.6 GW
Total generation
-3.6 GW
Net import
87.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.1°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
281
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.0 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 9.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; hard coal 4.6 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with twin chimneys and conveyor belts between the lignite station and the wind turbines; wind offshore 3.5 GW is visible in the far background as a line of turbines standing on a grey North Sea horizon; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short stacks emitting thin grey exhaust in the centre-left middle ground; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest steam plume near the biomass facility; solar 1.4 GW is represented by a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dark and wet, reflecting no sunlight; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a stream in the lower-left foreground. The sky is pre-dawn, deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, 99% cloud cover forming a low oppressive ceiling of dense stratus; no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky, the atmosphere heavy and brooding suggesting the high electricity price. Temperature is near freezing: frost covers the bare brown fields and dormant hedgerows of late-March central Germany, patches of old snow in furrows, leafless trees with dark silhouettes. Sodium streetlights glow amber along a distant road. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn sky, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and panel frame. No text, no labels.