Wind leads at 15.5 GW but heavy thermal and net imports cover a 13.1 GW gap at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
67%
Renewable share
15.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.5 GW
Solar
38.2 GW
Total generation
-13.1 GW
Net import
134.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
231
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning gently in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.8 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines emerging from a slate-grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the still air, connected to an industrial lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Solar 4.5 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces reflecting only the faintest pre-dawn sky glow — no direct sunlight hits them. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.1 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a single square cooling tower and a coal stockyard. Biomass 3.9 GW is depicted centre-right as a cluster of low industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and small chimneys releasing thin wisps. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley in the far centre background. The sky is early dawn at 06:00 in late May: deep blue-grey overhead fading to a narrow band of pale lavender and soft peach along the eastern horizon — no direct sun visible yet, no golden light, only the cold luminous promise of sunrise. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze hangs in the lowlands around the coal plants. Vegetation is lush late-spring green, meadow grasses tall, deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature is mild at 16°C. The scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective receding into morning mist, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark land and the brightening horizon. Every technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and pitch-controlled blades, aluminium PV frames, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower shells with condensation plumes, CCGT stacks. No text, no labels.