Strong wind and heavy coal and gas underpin a cold, overcast morning requiring 6.2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 2%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 18%
56%
Renewable share
24.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.1 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
-6.2 GW
Net import
152.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
305
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; hard coal 6.7 GW sits just right of centre-left as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and a pair of tall chimneys trailing smoke; natural gas 7.7 GW occupies the centre as compact CCGT units with gleaming steel exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat haze; wind onshore 18.5 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind, scattered across rolling hills; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears as a row of turbines on the far-right horizon standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a gap between hills; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and steam wisp near the coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley at far left; solar 1.1 GW is a small cluster of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and reflective under overcast, generating almost nothing. The sky is dawn at 07:00 in late March: deep blue-grey pre-dawn light without direct sun, the horizon showing the faintest pale steel-blue brightening, the rest a thick 98% cloud ceiling pressing low and heavy, conveying an oppressive high-price atmosphere. The landscape is late-winter central German terrain — bare deciduous trees, brown-grey grass touched by frost at 3°C, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with mist clinging to valleys, chiaroscuro interplay of industrial glow against the cold pre-dawn gloom, warm sodium-orange light spilling from plant windows contrasting with the cold blue-grey sky. Engineering details are meticulous: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT heat-recovery housings. No text, no labels.