Wind leads generation at 12.8 GW but heavy thermal dispatch and 7.3 GW net imports reflect strong overnight demand under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 19%
47%
Renewable share
12.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.5 GW
Total generation
-7.3 GW
Net import
113.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into blackness; natural gas 9.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting faint heat haze; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a single large coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house and chimney; wind onshore 11.2 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 1.6 GW suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark estuary; biomass 4.2 GW rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and moderate smokestack; hydro 1.5 GW shown as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at far left. Time is 01:00 at night: completely dark sky, no twilight, no moon visible, thick 100% cloud cover erasing all stars — sky is an oppressive deep charcoal-black canopy pressing down. Lighting comes only from sodium-orange streetlamps lining a road in the foreground, harsh white floodlights on the industrial facilities, and the red glow of furnace light from the coal station windows. Temperature 8°C in mid-April: bare-branched trees just beginning to bud, damp grass, puddles reflecting orange light. Wind at 10 km/h gives slight motion to steam plumes drifting left. The elevated price of 113.7 EUR/MWh conveyed through a heavy, oppressive, low-hanging atmosphere with dense humid air and industrial haze pressing close to the ground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadow and artificial light, atmospheric depth receding into murky distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, CCGT stack, and transmission pylon. No text, no labels.