Wind leads at 23.2 GW but coal plants hold firm at 18.2 GW combined on a cold late-March night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
54%
Renewable share
23.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.3 GW
Total generation
+0.5 GW
Net export
124.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
43.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
332
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling farmland into the deep distance, rotors visibly turning; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or estuary; brown coal 11.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; hard coal 6.6 GW sits left of centre as a coal-fired plant with tall rectangular boiler buildings and conveyor infrastructure, red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 6.6 GW is rendered centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a squat chimney and fuel storage dome near the centre; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a dark stream in the lower foreground. Time is 22:00 — full nighttime, deep navy-black sky with scattered breaks in 43% cloud cover revealing a few cold stars, no twilight whatsoever, no sky glow on the horizon. Temperature is 1.3°C: bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on dormant brown grass, breath-visible cold. Wind at 9.1 km/h moves bare branches gently. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting 124 EUR/MWh pricing — low brooding clouds press down, industrial haze diffuses the sodium-orange glow from the coal plants across the middle distance. All illumination comes from artificial sources: amber and white industrial floodlights, glowing control-room windows, blinking red nacelle lights on turbines, headlights of a distant freight train carrying coal. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime. Meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.