Overcast skies limit solar and wind, pushing brown coal, gas, and 16.4 GW net imports to meet strong morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 26%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
57%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.7 GW
Solar
49.4 GW
Total generation
-16.4 GW
Net import
161.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
293
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into grey air; natural gas 8.4 GW occupies the left-centre as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.5 GW appears centre-left as a traditional coal-fired station with a single large rectangular chimney and conveyor belts of dark fuel; solar 12.7 GW spans the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the overcast, producing no glint; wind onshore 7.3 GW fills the right portion as dozens of three-blade turbines on white lattice-and-tubular towers turning slowly in light breeze across rolling green spring fields; wind offshore 2.0 GW is visible as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea strip; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and small smokestack amid bare early-spring trees in the mid-ground; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a valley fold at far right. The sky is entirely blanketed in uniform heavy grey stratus at 100% cloud cover with no sun visible — diffuse flat daylight at 09:00 in April, cool 8.7°C atmosphere rendering breath-like mist near ground level. Early spring vegetation: pale green buds on deciduous trees, damp dark soil in ploughed fields. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, almost suffocating — reflecting the 161 EUR/MWh price — with low visibility toward the horizon and a claustrophobic closeness to the clouds. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice steel pylons cross the entire scene, symbolising import flows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour in muted grey-greens and ochres, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing, every PV panel's aluminium frame. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime industrial vastness under an indifferent sky. No text, no labels.