Wind leads at 12.3 GW but heavy overcast and early hour limit solar, driving 14.6 GW net imports and firm coal and gas dispatch.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 11%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
12.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.2 GW
Solar
38.1 GW
Total generation
-14.6 GW
Net import
131.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
292
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 9.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a distant cluster of turbines on a grey sea horizon. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite into sprawling industrial complexes. Natural gas 5.6 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT plants with slim single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Solar 4.2 GW is represented in the centre-right foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a hillside, but they are dull and lightless under the heavy sky, catching no gleam. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-clad generation halls with short chimneys releasing faint pale smoke, nestled among trees at mid-ground. Hydro 1.9 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley at centre distance, white water spilling over. Hard coal 3.1 GW shows as a single large power station with rectangular cooling towers and coal stockpiles near the brown coal complex on the left. The sky is 100 percent overcast, a uniform ceiling of heavy grey stratus pressing down with an oppressive weight reflecting the 131 EUR/MWh price; the lighting is pre-dawn at 06:00 in June — a pale blue-grey diffuse glow is just beginning to seep into the eastern horizon, but no sun is visible and the land remains dim, with sodium-orange industrial lights still glowing at the power stations. The temperature is a cool 11.8 °C; lush early-summer vegetation — thick green grass, leafy deciduous trees — glistens with morning dew. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, close. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's cell grid. No text, no labels.