Strong onshore wind drives 80% renewables at dawn; brown coal holds baseload under full overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 13%
81%
Renewable share
31.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.7 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
42.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
143
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with tubular steel towers stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 57% of the composition from centre to right, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line; brown coal 6.0 GW fills the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and woodchip storage silos just right of the coal complex; natural gas 1.8 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the biomass plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.0 GW is a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse visible along a river in the middle distance; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller smokestack facility partially obscured behind the lignite complex. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 — the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn wash with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible; landscape mostly in shadow with sodium-orange lights glowing at the industrial facilities. Temperature is cool at 11°C; early-autumn landscape with fields showing stubble and hedgerows just beginning to turn gold and russet. Cloud cover is total — a uniform, heavy, low stratus ceiling pressing down on the scene. No solar panels anywhere. Atmosphere is calm but weighty, slightly oppressive grey ceiling reflecting the moderate electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric perspective, muted palette of slate blues, warm ambers from artificial lights, cool greens and ochres in the fields — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib pattern, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.