Wind leads at 15 GW but full overcast and a 14.8 GW import need keep brown coal and gas running hard.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
60%
Renewable share
15.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.1 GW
Solar
44.6 GW
Total generation
-14.8 GW
Net import
137.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
282
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.0 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines barely visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right; brown coal 8.4 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, flanked by conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers; solar 6.1 GW appears as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the overcast — no sun glint; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short stack and steam wisps near the wind turbines; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible in a river cutting through the foreground meadow. Time is early dawn at 07:00 in May: the sky is a deep blue-grey transitioning to pale steel-white near the horizon, no direct sunlight, 100% cloud cover forming a heavy uniform stratus layer pressing down on the landscape. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, reflecting the 137 EUR/MWh price — thick humid air, muted colours, a brooding industrial weight. Temperature 12.5°C: spring vegetation is lush bright green, meadow grasses damp with morning dew, deciduous trees fully leafed. Wind at 16.7 km/h sets turbine blades in moderate rotation, grasses bending slightly, steam plumes from cooling towers drifting and shearing to the east. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with receding haze. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine three-blade rotors with pitch mechanisms, lattice transmission towers with sagging conductors, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation drifts, PV panel cell grids visible at close range. No text, no labels, no people.