Wind leads at 19.3 GW but 4 GW net imports are needed as coal and gas fill the pre-dawn thermal base.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
57%
Renewable share
19.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.7 GW
Total generation
-4.0 GW
Net import
105.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
300
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 13.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible sea line. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 6.2 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze, steel structures gleaming under yard lights. Hard coal 4.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station adjacent, with a single rectangular smokestack and conveyor belts faintly visible. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fueled CHP facility with a low corrugated building and a gently steaming chimney. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the mid-ground valley. Time is 04:00 — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no glow on the horizon, only a deep navy-black firmament; 91% cloud cover obscures all stars. The temperature is 5°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest suggestion of budding leaves, patches of frost on the grass. Ground-level lighting comes entirely from sodium streetlamps lining a country road and the amber-orange industrial floodlights of the power stations; the cooling tower steam plumes catch this artificial light and glow faintly orange-white against the black sky. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and dense — low clouds pressing down, reflecting industrial light in a dull ochre haze, conveying the elevated 105 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of deep blacks, burnt umber, and muted oranges; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with haze between the foreground industrial structures and the distant wind farm; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.