Gas, coal, and wind anchor a 48.6 GW supply against 60.5 GW demand under full overcast, driving 11.9 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 17%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 14%
54%
Renewable share
12.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.5 GW
Solar
48.6 GW
Total generation
-11.9 GW
Net import
130.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.1 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green April fields, blades turning slowly in light wind. Natural gas 9.3 GW fills the centre-right as a cluster of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes. Solar 8.5 GW appears centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels reflecting only dull grey sky, no sunlight glinting. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the far left as massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick columns of white-grey steam rising into the overcast. Hard coal 6.2 GW sits just left of centre as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and tall brick chimneys trailing brown-tinged smoke. Biomass 4.2 GW is visible as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a squat cylindrical stack and modest steam output nestled among bare-budding deciduous trees. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background among low wooded hills. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low, uniform grey-white stratus clouds; it is 17:00 in mid-April, so the light is that of early dusk — a faint orange-red glow just barely visible along the western horizon, the rest of the sky darkening to steel grey, the landscape losing colour. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, trees with small new leaves, a few patches of mud. Temperature around 12°C — cool, damp. Style: 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 greys, muted greens, industrial ochres, and fading copper-orange on the horizon. Visible thick brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening the distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every power plant. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.