Strong nighttime wind (27.8 GW) leads generation alongside persistent coal and gas baseload, enabling 3.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 15%
59%
Renewable share
27.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
56.4 GW
Total generation
+3.5 GW
Net export
108.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.5°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
279
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the blackness; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far right background as a distant cluster of taller turbines along the horizon line over a barely visible sea. Brown coal 8.3 GW fills the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 8.3 GW occupies the left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze, illuminated by harsh white facility lighting. Hard coal 6.5 GW sits behind the brown coal plant as a large conventional power station with tall chimneys and coal conveyors, its silhouette punctuated by red warning beacons. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a smaller wood-chip-fired plant in the centre-left with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard visible under floodlights. Hydro 1.0 GW is represented by a small dam spillway in the far centre background, water catching faint reflected light. The sky is completely black and starless — total 100% cloud cover at 23:00, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever, deep navy-black overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — thick low clouds press down, trapping the glow of industrial lighting into a lurid orange-amber haze that hugs the ground. Temperature is 3.5°C in late March: bare deciduous trees with no leaves, patches of frost on the ground, dead winter grass. Wind at 12.7 km/h sets turbine blades in moderate rotation and pushes steam plumes sideways. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich chiaroscuro between deep shadows and the warm industrial glow, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered fog and steam. Meticulous engineering detail on every facility: turbine nacelles with correct proportions, aluminium cladding on gas plant structures, concrete texture on cooling towers, conveyor belt gantries on the coal station. The painting evokes a sublime industrial nocturne — the immense scale of human energy infrastructure set against an indifferent, lightless sky. No text, no labels.