Gas, coal, and moderate wind supply a pre-dawn grid needing 13 GW of imports under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 17%
45%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.4 GW
Total generation
-13.1 GW
Net import
133.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
365
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 7.0 GW dominates the centre-left as three large combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale plumes; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam into the heavy sky; hard coal 5.3 GW appears just right of centre as a coal-fired power station with twin rectangular chimneys and conveyor gantries feeding dark fuel piles; wind onshore 6.9 GW fills the right third of the scene as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as distant turbines standing in grey water; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a domed wood-chip silo and moderate exhaust; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a valley fold at lower right. Time is pre-dawn, 06:00 in early April in central Germany: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun visible; 100% cloud cover creates a thick unbroken overcast pressing low, giving a heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 133 EUR/MWh price. No solar panels anywhere — the landscape is dark. Temperature near 5°C: bare deciduous trees with only the earliest buds, frost on brown grass, patches of lingering mist in low terrain. Sodium-orange streetlights glow along a small road in the foreground; lit windows in a distant village. The entire composition is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmospherics blended with meticulous industrial realism. Rich, dark colour palette of slate blues, warm oranges from artificial light, cool greys and whites from steam. Visible, confident brushwork with atmospheric depth and aerial perspective. Each technology is engineered accurately: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed details absent since no solar, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with layered condensation plumes, CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.