Coal, gas, and wind share generation while 13.3 GW net imports fill the gap on a cold, overcast morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 6%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 15%
49%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
-13.3 GW
Net import
135.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
343
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into leaden skies; hard coal 5.3 GW sits just left of centre as a dense industrial complex with rectangular boiler houses, tall chimneys, and coal conveyors; natural gas 7.1 GW fills the centre-right as sleek CCGT units with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 6.4 GW stretches across the right-centre as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on low hilltops; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as distant turbines on a grey North Sea horizon glimpsed through a gap between hills; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a modest stack and timber-pile yard; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under total overcast with no sunlight; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a penstock visible at the far right edge. Time is dawn at 07:00 in early April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours—just cold pre-dawn twilight filtering through a seamless 100% cloud deck. Temperature is 5°C: bare deciduous trees with only the earliest budding, frost-tinged brown grass, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. Wind is light at 7.5 km/h: turbine blades rotate slowly, steam plumes rise nearly vertically before drifting slightly. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—thick, low clouds pressing down on the industrial landscape, a sense of weight and cost in the air. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—with rich dark colour palette of slate grey, Prussian blue, umber, and ivory, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.