Strong wind generation covers most demand at nightfall, with coal, gas, and imports filling the 4.4 GW gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 55%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
31.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.1 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
74.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 26.4 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, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon with tiny red aviation lights blinking above an invisible sea; brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps, beside a lignite conveyor belt; hard coal 2.7 GW sits adjacent as a single tall chimney with a coal bunker facility, faintly glowing; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a visible heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; biomass 4.4 GW is represented by a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and a modest stack emitting thin grey smoke, placed between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway in the left background, lit by a few floodlights. The sky is completely dark — pitch-black with no twilight, no glow on the horizon — a deep navy-to-black overcast at 100% cloud cover, no stars visible. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, matching the moderately high electricity price. The landscape is early spring in central Germany: bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, brown-green grass, patches of mud, temperature near 6°C suggesting damp chill. All illumination comes from artificial sources — sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the middle ground, white floodlights on the industrial facilities, red blinking lights atop turbine nacelles. Wind is evident in bending grasses and the tilt of bare branches. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, and ochre, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.