Wind leads at 19.9 GW but pre-dawn cold and zero solar force 15.5 GW of fossil dispatch and 7.4 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
62%
Renewable share
19.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-7.4 GW
Net import
104.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
261
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.5 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling, frost-covered hills into the deep distance. Wind offshore 4.4 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines rising from a dark sliver of the North Sea on the horizon. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting leftward, flanked by conveyor belts and open-pit earthworks. Natural gas 5.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular heat-recovery units, exhaust gases faintly visible. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller conventional station with a single large chimney and coal storage bunkers. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered centre-right as a modest industrial facility with a rounded silo, wood-chip yard, and a low steam vent. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible beside a dark river in the middle distance. No solar panels anywhere — it is pre-dawn with zero solar generation. The sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence at the eastern horizon suggesting the very first hint of dawn; overhead the sky is nearly black, stars still faintly visible. The landscape is early spring — bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, dormant brown grass edged with frost, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. Temperature 2.4 °C: breath-fog visible near ground structures, frost on metal surfaces. Clear sky, zero cloud cover, but the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — a faint industrial haze hangs low, suggesting high energy prices and strained supply. Sodium-orange streetlights glow along a road in the foreground. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich, dark colour palette of indigo, charcoal, ochre, and pale steel-blue, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.