Wind and brown coal anchor a cloudy dawn grid requiring 12.8 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 5%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
15.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
-12.8 GW
Net import
135.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
86.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
306
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy clouds; natural gas 5.5 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower with thinner vapour; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker, blockier power station with two large chimneys and conveyor belts feeding fuel; wind offshore 4.1 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible grey sea; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed generating plant with a rounded silo and modest stack near centre-right; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and powerhouse tucked into a valley between the hills on the right; solar 2.0 GW is barely present as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the middle distance, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast sky. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn light at 06:00 in late May — no direct sunlight, only the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon behind thick 86% cloud cover; the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and dense, reflecting the 135 EUR/MWh price. The landscape is lush spring-green with May vegetation, temperature around 12°C suggesting cool moist air with dew on grass. Sodium-orange industrial lighting glows from the coal and gas plant complexes. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich, brooding colour palette of slate blues, moss greens, ochre industrial highlights, and pearl greys; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective with mist in the valleys; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.