Brown coal and onshore wind lead generation as heavy net imports fill a 19.3 GW gap at dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 10%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 29%
46%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.3 GW
Solar
33.8 GW
Total generation
19.3 GW
Net import
166.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
391
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; onshore wind 6.7 GW fills the centre-right as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; natural gas 4.6 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the lignite plant as a smaller set of rectangular boiler houses with twin chimneys and dark smoke wisps; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and modest stack; solar 3.3 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching no direct light yet; hydro 1.3 GW is a concrete run-of-river dam with a narrow channel visible in the far right valley; offshore wind 0.6 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the distant horizon line. TIME OF DAY: pre-dawn at 06:00 in July — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale salmon glow at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, landscape lit by diffuse twilight and a few sodium-orange industrial lights on the power plants. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a thick haze hanging low over the industrial zone suggesting high electricity prices. Temperature is mild at 15°C, lush green summer vegetation on rolling hills, clear sky with zero cloud cover overhead revealing fading stars. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of deep Prussian blues, warm ambers from industrial glow, cool grey-greens in the landscape; visible confident brushwork with impasto highlights on steam plumes and turbine blades; atmospheric perspective creating depth from foreground solar panels through mid-ground thermal plants to distant wind turbines on the horizon; meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, cooling tower profile, and panel frame; the composition conveys the vast scale of industrial energy infrastructure against the quiet grandeur of the German landscape at daybreak. No text, no labels, no typography.