Strong wind leads generation but an 11.4 GW net import covers the evening peak under high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
27.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.3 GW
Total generation
-11.3 GW
Net import
95.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
164
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 21.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of offshore turbines visible through haze on a black sea horizon with faint aviation warning lights. Brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium lamps. Biomass 4.4 GW sits behind the coal plant as a smaller industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and biomass storage dome, warmly lit. Natural gas 2.7 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and faint blue flame glow, positioned center-left. Hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a second thermal station adjacent, with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt structure under floodlights. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam structure on a river in the mid-ground. TIME: 20:00 — full night, completely dark sky, deep navy-black, absolutely no twilight or sky glow; the only light sources are sodium-orange streetlights, industrial floodlights on the power plants, red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles blinking, and faint warm window glow from a distant village. WEATHER: 6.8°C early spring, bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, dead brown grass, 100% cloud cover pressing down as an invisible low ceiling felt as oppressive darkness, moderate wind at 13.4 km/h shown through slightly bent grasses and spinning turbine blades with visible motion blur. ATMOSPHERE: heavy, oppressive feeling reflecting the 95.2 EUR/MWh price — thick industrial haze, steam from cooling towers hanging low, a sense of strain and weight. Transmission lines with high-voltage pylons cross the middle ground, cables sagging under load, connecting the disparate sources. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the pitch-black sky and the warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth with layers of haze, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower reinforced concrete texture, gas exhaust stack geometry. The mood evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness transposed onto a modern industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.