Strong wind leads generation but a 7.9 GW net import and thermal dispatch are needed to meet evening peak demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 52%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 1%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 10%
75%
Renewable share
35.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
-7.9 GW
Net import
138.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
171
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills into the distance; wind offshore 6.6 GW appears as a cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible grey sea line; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 5.6 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack behind the gas plant; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a short chimney; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a river cutting through the lower foreground; solar 0.3 GW is essentially absent—no panels visible. The sky is dusk at 19:00 in late March in Germany: a narrow band of deep orange-red glow clinging to the lower western horizon, the rest of the sky darkening rapidly through slate grey to near-navy overhead, with complete 100% cloud cover—thick, oppressive stratiform clouds pressing down, no stars. Temperature 9.5°C—early spring, bare deciduous trees with just the first tiny buds, damp brown grass, patches of mud. Wind at 15.9 km/h animates the turbine blades in moderate rotation, bends the sparse roadside bushes slightly, and streaks the cooling tower steam plumes sideways. The elevated 138 EUR/MWh price is expressed through a heavy, brooding atmosphere—the clouds feel low and suffocating, the industrial glow from sodium streetlights along a nearby road casts amber pools on wet asphalt. A few lit windows in a distant village add warm pinpoints. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial structures and the darkening sky, atmospheric depth with haze softening the distant turbine rows, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.