Strong onshore wind leads generation but 10.1 GW net imports needed as overcast skies limit solar at evening peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
76%
Renewable share
26.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.6 GW
Solar
50.8 GW
Total generation
-10.1 GW
Net import
123.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 83.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
179
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.1 GW dominates the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey sea inlet at far right; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy overcast; hard coal 2.7 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular chimney stack trailing dark-grey exhaust; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender steel exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants and the wind farm; solar 6.6 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under the dense cloud layer; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed plant with a rounded silo and a modest smokestack near the coal complex; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a river in the valley floor. The sky is 97% overcast — a heavy, oppressive ceiling of layered grey stratus clouds pressing down, with only a faint amber-orange glow bleeding along the lowest sliver of the western horizon as the sun sets behind the clouds at dusk (18:00 Berlin time in May). The upper sky transitions from grey to a deepening blue-grey. The atmosphere feels weighty and costly — the high electricity price conveyed through the brooding, leaden heaviness of the cloud mass and warm industrial haze. Spring vegetation is fresh green but muted under the flat light; temperature near 10°C suggests cool damp air with no heat shimmer from the ground. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, deep colour palette of slate greys, viridian greens, umber browns, and touches of amber at the horizon; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes; atmospheric perspective creating depth from the industrial foreground to the wind-studded hills beyond. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: lattice sub-structures on turbine foundations, guy-wires on stacks, riveted steel on cooling towers, individual PV cell grids visible on panels. No text, no labels.