Overcast morning: brown coal, gas, and solar lead generation while 19.6 GW of net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 27%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.7 GW
Solar
38.8 GW
Total generation
-19.6 GW
Net import
138.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
295
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast, surrounded by open-pit lignite mine terraces; solar 10.7 GW fills the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey diffuse light under a completely overcast sky with no sun visible; natural gas 6.6 GW occupies the centre-right as a modern combined-cycle gas turbine plant with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 5.1 GW appears in the right portion as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning slowly in light wind; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a timber-clad biomass plant with a modest chimney and wood-chip storage silos at the far right; hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a single square stack behind the gas plant; hydro 2.1 GW is a concrete run-of-river dam in the far background nestled against forested hills; wind offshore 0.2 GW is a faint pair of turbines barely visible on a distant grey horizon line. The sky is entirely blanketed by low, thick stratus clouds in oppressive tones of slate grey and dark pewter, creating a heavy, pressing atmosphere consistent with a 138.8 EUR/MWh price. Lighting is early dawn at 07:00 in June — pale blue-grey pre-dawn light filtering weakly through the overcast, no direct sunlight, long soft shadows, the eastern horizon faintly lighter in muted ivory. Temperature is cool at 10 °C: lush green June vegetation on hillsides and field margins, but with a raw damp feeling, dew on grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the background into misty grey-blue, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's aluminium frame, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime industrial landscapes. No text, no labels.