Wind leads at 21.5 GW overnight, but 19.1 GW of coal and gas persist under high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 17%
59%
Renewable share
21.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.1 GW
Total generation
+1.1 GW
Net export
101.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
291
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers, their pale steam plumes rising into the black overcast sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 5.5 GW sits just right of centre as a gritty power station with rectangular stacks and conveyor belts, glowing amber under arc lights; natural gas 5.6 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour, positioned centre-right, lit by white halogen lamps; wind onshore 16.1 GW fills the entire right third and extends into the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the deep black sky, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.4 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a row of turbines emerging from a dark coastal horizon line, tiny red lights dotting the distance; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-clad plant with a single smokestack near the centre-left, warmly lit; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam in the lower-left foreground with floodlit spillway water. The sky is entirely overcast, pitch-black at 1 AM, no moon, no stars visible—only a thick oppressive cloud ceiling reflecting a dull orange-brown industrial glow. Temperature around 7°C: early-spring bare deciduous trees, damp ground, patches of old grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, haze clinging to the cooling tower plumes. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.