Wind leads at 13.6 GW but 9 GW net imports needed as coal and gas fill the nighttime gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 20%
55%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.2 GW
Total generation
-9.1 GW
Net import
101.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
318
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black night sky, lit from below by harsh sodium-orange industrial lighting revealing concrete textures and coal conveyors. Hard coal 4.5 GW appears just right of centre-left as two rectangular coal-fired boiler houses with tall chimneys emitting thin grey exhaust, gantry cranes silhouetted against amber floodlights. Natural gas 4.0 GW occupies the centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, lit by white LED security lights. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a domed storage silo and short smokestack with faint vapour, warm interior glow spilling from its open loading bay. Wind onshore 11.7 GW spans the entire right third and extends into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, their red aircraft-warning lights blinking rhythmically against the pitch-black sky, rotors captured mid-turn suggesting moderate rotation. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a distant line of tiny red blinking lights on the far-right horizon implying North Sea turbines. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure in the lower right foreground with water gleaming under a single floodlight. Solar is completely absent—no panels anywhere. The sky is entirely black with a deep navy undertone, cloudless, showing faint stars; absolutely no twilight or sky glow. The landscape is flat-to-rolling early-spring German terrain with bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, dormant brown grass touched by frost glistening under industrial light, temperature near freezing conveyed by visible breath-like steam from cooling systems. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive—a faint industrial haze diffuses the artificial lights into haloes, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadow and sodium-lit industrial glow, atmospheric depth receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.