Biomass, brown coal, and offshore wind lead a sunless midday grid under full overcast at a very low 5.7 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 17%
Biomass 27%
Hydro 12%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
61%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
15.8 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
5.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 11.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Biomass 4.2 GW dominates the centre-left as a cluster of large industrial biomass plants with tall chimneys trailing pale wood-smoke, surrounded by stacked timber and conveyor infrastructure. Brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky, beside a terraced open-pit mine with enormous bucket-wheel excavators. Offshore wind 2.7 GW appears on the far right horizon as a line of tall three-blade turbines standing in a grey North Sea, their rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Hydro 1.8 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway in the right-centre middle ground, set into a forested valley. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit, positioned centre-right. Hard coal 1.7 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller power station with rectangular brick boiler house and conveyor belts feeding a coal stockpile. Onshore wind 0.9 GW is shown as a handful of smaller turbines on rolling green hills in the middle distance, blades spinning. The time is noon but the sky is entirely overcast — a uniform blanket of thick grey-white stratus clouds with no blue visible anywhere, casting flat diffused light across the scene. No sunshine, no shadows, no solar panels. The landscape is early spring in central Germany: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, brown ploughed fields interspersed with green meadows, temperature around 9°C suggesting damp cool air. A moderate breeze bends grasses and ripples puddles. The atmosphere is calm and muted, reflecting the very low electricity price — no drama, just steady industrial hum under a quiet overcast. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant cooling towers into misty grey, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.