Wind leads at 17.5 GW with brown coal and gas backstopping a cold, import-dependent April dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 10%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
63%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.2 GW
Solar
43.6 GW
Total generation
-4.9 GW
Net import
93.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-0.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
40.0% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
255
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles marching across rolling frost-covered farmland; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a slate-grey North Sea barely visible through morning haze. Brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting eastward, flanked by conveyor belts feeding from an open-pit mine. Natural gas 5.1 GW sits left of centre as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular cooling units, exhaust shimmering in cold air. Hard coal 3.9 GW appears as a traditional coal station with a single large chimney and coal bunkers, positioned behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the centre. Solar 4.2 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right middle ground, their surfaces dark and unreflective in the pre-dawn gloom. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river dam visible in a valley at the far centre background. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn light at 07:00 in April — no direct sunlight yet, only a faint pale luminescence along the eastern horizon below scattered clouds at 40% cover, the upper sky still near-dark navy. The atmosphere is heavy and slightly oppressive reflecting the 93.2 EUR/MWh price — low mist clings to the frozen ground, temperature at -0.2°C shown by frost on grass, bare early-spring trees with only the faintest buds, breath-like steam from every exhaust. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy, deep earth tones and steel blues, chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the cold dark landscape. No text, no labels.