Wind leads at 24.4 GW with coal and gas filling the nighttime gap as Germany draws 2.4 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 13%
62%
Renewable share
24.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
-2.4 GW
Net import
106.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
254
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.2 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far right background as a distant cluster of turbines on a black sea horizon with tiny white lights. Natural gas 8.2 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin white plumes, lit by harsh sodium floodlights casting orange pools on concrete aprons. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with dense steam columns rising into darkness, adjacent open-pit mine terraces faintly visible. Hard coal 4.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station to the left with a single rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a brick chimney glowing at its tip. Biomass 4.4 GW is a modest industrial facility with cylindrical digesters and a short stack with a faint warm exhaust, tucked between the gas and coal plants. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure in the middle distance with water glinting under floodlight. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with 92% overcast — no stars visible, no twilight, no sky glow — a thick blanket of low cloud faintly reflecting the orange industrial light from below, giving the atmosphere a heavy, oppressive, slightly suffocating quality befitting the 106.8 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a cold 5°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest buds, patches of frost on grass in the foreground, breath-visible cold. Moderate wind shown by slightly bending grasses and the spinning rotors of the turbines. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro between sodium-lit industrial zones and the surrounding blackness, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.