Overcast calm morning: solar leads at 9.9 GW, brown coal and gas fill weak-wind gaps, driving 8.1 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 29%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
62%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.9 GW
Solar
34.3 GW
Total generation
-8.1 GW
Net import
101.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
271
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into leaden skies; hard coal 3.2 GW sits just right of them as a darker, soot-stained power station with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding coal hoppers; natural gas 4.0 GW occupies the left-centre as two compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; biomass 4.4 GW appears centre-left as a wood-chip facility with domed storage silos and a modest smokestack; solar 9.9 GW fills the entire right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light — no sunshine, no glare, purely diffuse illumination under total overcast; wind onshore 3.9 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle ridge behind the solar fields, rotors barely turning in near-still air; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a handful of distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea inlet; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse visible near a stream in the foreground. Time of day is early dawn at 07:00 in May — the sky is a uniform heavy grey with no sun visible, pale pre-dawn blue-grey light diffusing evenly across the landscape, the horizon showing the faintest warmth of a sunrise completely smothered by 100% cloud cover. The temperature is a cold 4.6 °C: spring vegetation is tentative, grass bright green but trees only partially leafed, a light frost lingering on fence posts and panel edges. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and still, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds press down on the industrial landscape. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich, moody colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, and warm amber from industrial lighting, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into mist, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower ribbing, every PV cell grid line. No text, no labels.