Overcast skies and near-zero wind force heavy coal, gas, and 17.9 GW net imports to meet morning demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 33%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
54%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.0 GW
Solar
39.3 GW
Total generation
-17.9 GW
Net import
148.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.5°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
326
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; solar 13.0 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat terrain, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under dense cloud cover with no sunshine; natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-left as a group of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze; hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the gas units as an older plant with twin chimneys and a coal conveyor; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the right; wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely motionless; wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on the far horizon; hydro 1.3 GW is a modest dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley at the far right. The sky is entirely blanketed by low, heavy, unbroken stratus clouds — no sun, no blue, an oppressive and suffocating ceiling pressing down — consistent with 100% cloud cover and a price-driven atmosphere of tension. Lighting is early-morning dawn at 07:00: pale, cool, blue-grey pre-dawn light filtering weakly through the clouds, no direct sunlight, gentle diffuse illumination casting almost no shadows. The season is midsummer: lush green foliage on deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers at field edges, but the greenery is muted under the flat light. The air is still — no motion in any foliage or flag. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance — yet every piece of engineering is rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries, substation transformer yards with high-voltage lines receding into the haze. No text, no labels, no people.