Strong onshore wind at 36.7 GW leads an 81% renewable mix; thermal plants and imports cover remaining evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 6%
81%
Renewable share
43.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
60.5 GW
Total generation
-4.2 GW
Net import
74.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
126
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 36.7 GW dominates three-quarters of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.7 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of larger offshore turbines rising from a dark sliver of the North Sea. Natural gas 4.7 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes billowing upward, flanked by conveyor belts and a lignite stockpile. Hard coal 3.1 GW sits just left of centre as a coal-fired plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and a single chimney trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded woodchip storage dome and a modest stack emitting pale vapour, placed between the coal and gas plants. Hydro 1.0 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley in the lower-left corner, water faintly reflecting artificial light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no stars visible through 100% overcast cloud cover — creating a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 74.5 EUR/MWh price. The only light sources are sodium streetlights casting amber pools on wet roads, industrial floodlights on the power stations, and the red aircraft-warning lights blinking atop every turbine tower. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, damp green grass on the hillsides, 9°C chill suggested by condensation and mist around the cooling towers. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich dark colour palette of indigo, amber, and steel grey, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the glowing industrial light. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.