Wind leads at 19.8 GW under heavy overcast; thermal plants and 8.3 GW net imports fill the early-morning demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 18%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
77%
Renewable share
19.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.7 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
-8.3 GW
Net import
118.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 7.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
151
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; wind offshore 4.3 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea inlet. Solar 7.7 GW occupies a modest mid-ground strip as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on flat fields, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast. Brown coal 4.4 GW fills the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that blend into the cloud base. Natural gas 4.5 GW sits just right of the coal as a compact CCGT plant with twin cylindrical exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-clad combined heat and power plant with a short brick chimney and stacked timber beside it, positioned between the gas plant and the turbine fields. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a river valley in the mid-left distance. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller industrial stack with a faint grey plume near the brown coal complex. The sky is dawn at 07:00 in early June: a pale blue-grey pre-dawn light is just beginning to brighten the eastern horizon, but the 96% cloud cover creates a heavy, uniform, low overcast ceiling — no direct sunlight breaks through. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 10.9 °C; vegetation is lush early-summer green but subdued in colour under flat light. Wind at 16.4 km/h bends the grasses and gives visible motion to the turbine blades. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible confident brushwork, Romantic atmospheric grandeur applied to an industrial landscape. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower surface texture, PV panel grid pattern, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.