Wind leads at 23.5 GW but coal and gas fill the nighttime gap, driving 5 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 16%
59%
Renewable share
23.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.7 GW
Total generation
-4.9 GW
Net import
121.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
286
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far background right as a distant line of turbines on a black sea horizon. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 6.3 GW sits just right of centre as a coal-fired plant with tall rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a pair of tapered concrete chimneys trailing thinner smoke. Natural gas 6.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and a low turbine hall, its metal surfaces catching amber light. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired plant with a conical wood-chip silo and a short smokestack near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure with a spillway in the lower-left middle ground, water faintly reflecting facility lights. Time is 22:00 in April — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover forming a heavy, oppressive low overcast lit faintly orange-grey from below by industrial light pollution. Temperature is a cool 10°C spring night; bare-branched trees are just beginning to leaf out, grass is dark green-black. Wind at 16 km/h animates the steam plumes, bending them to the right, and stirs the turbine blades into visible rotation blur. The elevated electricity price is conveyed through a heavy, brooding atmosphere — thick low clouds pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep colour palette of navy, amber, charcoal, and slate; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against the dark sky; atmospheric depth with mist and steam layering the middle distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, coal conveyor infrastructure. No text, no labels, no people.