Overcast morning: wind and solar lead renewables at 67.8%, but 16.9 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 22%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
68%
Renewable share
13.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
41.9 GW
Total generation
-16.9 GW
Net import
136.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 5.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
229
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky. Solar 9.2 GW occupies the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull under heavy overcast with no sun reflections. Wind onshore 8.4 GW spans the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning gently in light wind across rolling green hills. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of offshore turbines visible across a grey North Sea horizon. Natural gas 4.0 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with single tall exhaust stacks and low-profile turbine halls positioned in the middle ground, thin heat haze rising from their vents. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed generating station with a squat industrial chimney and stacked timber beside it, near the lignite complex. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors visible at the far left edge. Hydro 1.8 GW is represented by a small run-of-river dam and powerhouse tucked into a wooded valley in the right foreground. Time of day is early dawn at 07:00 in June: the sky is a deep blue-grey with the faintest pale glow along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, pre-dawn diffused light barely illuminating the landscape. Cloud cover is total — a heavy, unbroken, oppressive ceiling of dark stratiform clouds presses low overhead, conveying the tension of a high-price grid state. Temperature is cool at 10°C: lush green early-summer vegetation — tall grass, leafy deciduous trees — but with morning dew and a chill stillness. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, slightly brooding. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and Romantic grandeur — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower flute, every PV cell grid line. No text, no labels.