Wind leads generation but 13.5 GW net imports and lignite baseload fill a large evening demand gap at high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
56%
Renewable share
13.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.3 GW
Total generation
-13.6 GW
Net import
128.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
316
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
A nighttime German industrial-energy landscape rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the style of 19th-century German Romantic masters, with rich visible brushwork and atmospheric depth. The sky is completely dark — deep black-navy, fully overcast with no stars, no twilight glow, only artificial lighting. Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the canvas as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights of a sprawling lignite power station, glowing conveyor belts visible. Natural gas 4.1 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, their aluminium cladding reflecting amber industrial lamps. Hard coal 3.6 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal plant with rectangular boiler houses, a tall brick chimney, and small coal stockpiles illuminated by floodlights. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered just right of centre as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with modest stacks and warm golden-lit warehouse structures, steam wisping upward. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a glowing powerhouse at the base of a dark river valley in the mid-ground right. Wind onshore 12.1 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark estuary, tiny red dots in a row. The foreground features a lush May meadow with tall spring grass barely visible in darkness, a few lit farmhouse windows. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the middle ground, cables sagging under heavy load, their steel lattice faintly reflecting the industrial glow. The overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive — thick low clouds pressing down, a sense of expensive, strained energy supply — yet the painting carries a brooding Romantic grandeur, the interplay of warm industrial light against the impenetrable night sky creating dramatic chiaroscuro. No text, no labels, no solar panels anywhere.