Wind power at 25.7 GW leads an 83% renewable mix at dawn, with 3.1 GW net imports covering remaining demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 53%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
25.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.5 GW
Solar
38.4 GW
Total generation
-3.0 GW
Net import
53.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
117
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 20.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green farmland into the distance; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears on the far right horizon as silhouettes of offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea band. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, alongside a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Biomass 3.8 GW sits left-centre as a cluster of industrial wood-chip combustion plants with modest cylindrical stacks and warm amber glowing intake bays. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin transparent heat shimmer. Hydro 2.0 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley in the mid-ground centre. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a smaller traditional power station with a single square chimney barely visible behind the biomass plant. Solar 0.5 GW is suggested only by a small cluster of dark, dew-covered aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels on a nearby barn roof, completely unlit, reflecting nothing. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the very first pale cold light appearing low on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight anywhere, the upper sky still near-black. Overcast cloud layer at 97% covers almost everything, heavy and flat. The atmosphere is cool and moist, 14°C June morning, lush green grass and full-leafed deciduous trees, dew glistening on surfaces under the faint ambient light. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along a country road winding through the scene. The mood is moderately heavy and expectant, not oppressive but weighted by the thick cloud ceiling. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich dark palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and muted viridian, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial accuracy—turbine nacelles precisely rendered, cooling tower parabolic geometry correct, CCGT exhaust stack proportions faithful. No text, no labels.