Strong wind generation leads at 23.8 GW with lignite and biomass backing a pre-dawn grid requiring 3 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
80%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
36.7 GW
Total generation
-2.9 GW
Net import
39.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of large three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling central German hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible coastline. Brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Biomass 3.6 GW sits just right of centre-left as a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust, warm interior light glowing from facility windows. Natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant in the centre-left middle ground with a sleek exhaust stack and a smaller vapour plume, illuminated by facility floodlights. Hydro 1.6 GW is rendered as a concrete run-of-river weir structure in the lower-left foreground, dark water rushing over spillways reflecting artificial light. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a small conventional power station in the far left background with a single square chimney and thin smoke trail. No solar panels anywhere — sky is completely overcast at 89% cloud cover. Time is 05:00 in early June: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the faintest hint of pale cold light along the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight, no warm tones in the sky, the landscape mostly dark and lit by industrial sodium and LED lighting. Temperature 13.4°C with lush early-summer green vegetation faintly visible in the pre-dawn grey, dew on grass. Atmosphere is calm, slightly hazy from cooling tower moisture, neither oppressive nor bright — a moderate, steady feeling. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich, deep colour palette dominated by Prussian blue, raw umber, and warm sodium-orange accents; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layered fog and steam; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and CCGT exhaust structure; dramatic sense of scale between vast landscape and industrial forms. No text, no labels.