Wind leads at 26.9 GW but zero solar and strong demand force 15.2 GW of thermal generation and 6.2 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 12%
68%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
47.7 GW
Total generation
-6.2 GW
Net import
112.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling central German farmland, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible grey sea; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 5.0 GW sits left-of-centre as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat haze; hard coal 4.5 GW appears as a dark industrial complex with a tall chimney and coal conveyor belt just behind the gas plant; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest rectangular stack and neat log storage yard between the thermal cluster and the wind turbines; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the middle distance. No solar panels anywhere — the sky is completely overcast. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky, the landscape lit mostly by sodium-orange industrial lights from the power stations and faint pre-dawn ambient glow. Temperature 8.4 °C: early spring vegetation — bare branches with the first hints of green buds, damp brown fields, patches of mist near the river. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price — low thick cloud ceiling pressing down, dense moisture in the air giving a slightly hazy quality. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, warm industrial oranges, deep grey-greens; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of mist between foreground industrial structures and distant turbine rows; meticulous engineering detail on every technology — turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry, coal conveyors. The scene feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork painting of the modern industrial energy landscape at the cusp of dawn. No text, no labels, no human figures.