Strong wind generation at 42.5 GW combined drives 8.2 GW net exports on a dark, overcast pre-dawn morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 62%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 6%
82%
Renewable share
42.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
57.8 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
18.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.7°C / 33 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
124
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 35.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across rolling hills from the center to the far right, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 6.8 GW appears in the distant background-right as a cluster of larger offshore turbines rising from a dark grey North Sea horizon; hard coal 3.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a compact coal-fired power station with rectangular boiler houses, tall concrete stacks emitting thin grey plumes, and coal conveyors; brown coal 3.7 GW sits just left of center as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing dense white steam clouds into the heavy overcast; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with faint exhaust; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a smaller CCGT plant with a single cylindrical exhaust stack and compact turbine hall near the left-center; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir in a valley at far left. Time is 05:00 pre-dawn in late March: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest hint of pale indigo on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, everything lit by sodium-orange streetlights along rural roads and warm industrial lighting on the power stations. Overcast is total at 100%, a low heavy blanket of stratus clouds pressing down. Temperature near freezing: bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on brown fields, no green growth yet. Wind is strong — turbine blades show motion blur, steam plumes from cooling towers shear sharply to the east, bare branches bend. The low electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open atmospheric quality despite the overcast — no oppressive darkness, just quiet pre-dawn stillness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody color palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and warm sodium-lamp orange; visible expressive brushwork; atmospheric depth with fog and mist in valleys; meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, and CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.