Wind and fading solar lead renewables at 63%, but 14.8 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 20%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
63%
Renewable share
13.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
45.3 GW
Total generation
-14.8 GW
Net import
132.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 101.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes drifting into overcast sky; onshore wind 13.2 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers across rolling green hills, blades turning moderately in light wind; solar 9.2 GW appears in the centre-left foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on flat ground, their glass surfaces reflecting only the dull grey of the sky with no direct sunlight; natural gas 5.1 GW sits centre-right as two compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts behind the solar field; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fueled combined heat and power plant with a rounded silo and small chimney releasing pale vapour; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with foaming water visible at the lower right edge; offshore wind 0.6 GW is barely suggested as tiny turbines on a misty horizon line at far right. TIME AND LIGHT: 18:00 in mid-May, dusk beginning — the sky is a low oppressive ceiling of 100% cloud cover in tones of slate grey and muted charcoal, the western horizon shows only the faintest diffused amber-orange glow bleeding through dense clouds, upper sky darkening toward blue-grey; no direct sun visible anywhere. ATMOSPHERE: heavy, brooding, almost suffocating overcast reflecting the 132.4 EUR/MWh price tension; cool 10°C spring evening, fresh green deciduous trees and grass on hillsides, wildflowers just emerging. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich saturated colour palette of greys, greens, ochres, and steel blues, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro where industrial lighting begins to glow against the fading sky. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, three-blade rotors at correct pitch, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation plumes, PV panel cell grid patterns. No text, no labels.