Wind leads at 18.1 GW but 19.8 GW net imports needed as overcast evening drives 137 EUR/MWh prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 4%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
61%
Renewable share
18.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.9 GW
Solar
42.2 GW
Total generation
-19.8 GW
Net import
137.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 20.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, stretching across rolling green spring fields. Wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines along a hazy grey-blue coastline. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into heavy cloud. Natural gas 6.2 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails. Hard coal 3.5 GW appears behind the gas plants as a single large boiler house with a tall chimney and coal conveyor belts. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with rounded digesters and short stacks. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a river valley in the mid-distance. Solar 1.9 GW appears only as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the lower centre, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast sky. The time is 19:00 in early April — a late dusk scene with a narrow band of deep orange-red glow along the lower western horizon, the sky above rapidly darkening to slate grey and deep blue-grey, completely covered in thick low stratus clouds. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees. The air is mild at 16°C. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep greys, burnt oranges, and muted greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial haze blending into cloud. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene has the grandeur and melancholy of a Caspar David Friedrich composition reimagined for the industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.