Wind leads at 18.9 GW but coal and gas must cover a 4.5 GW import gap on a cold April night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
61%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
96.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
268
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.0 GW dominates the right half and receding background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning slowly, scattered across dark rolling hills; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly glinting North Sea sliver. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 5.3 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, their facades illuminated by harsh white floodlights. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station behind the gas plant, with a single large smokestack and a dark conveyor belt structure. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with a cylindrical silo and a modest stack with a warm orange glow at centre-right, nestled among bare early-spring trees. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam with spillway in the lower-right foreground, water faintly catching reflected light. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The sky is completely black to deep navy, fully clear with sharp cold stars and a thin crescent moon low on the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty stillness hangs over the industrial valley. Temperature is 3°C: frost rims the foreground grass and bare tree branches, early spring with no leaves yet, patches of residual snow in furrows. Ground-level fog drifts between the cooling towers. All artificial lighting is sodium-amber and cool-white industrial floodlights; no sky glow, no twilight. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's contemplative darkness merged with industrial sublime — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.