Wind leads at 19.9 GW but 9 GW net imports and heavy coal and gas dispatch reflect nighttime solar absence and elevated demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
59%
Renewable share
19.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
-9.0 GW
Net import
131.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
286
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, arrayed across rolling farmland; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line above a faintly visible sea; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 5.9 GW sits left of centre as two compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes, their facades illuminated by floodlights; hard coal 4.6 GW appears centre-left as a coal-fired plant with a large boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single wide chimney with aviation warning lights blinking red; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a smaller wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and a pile of timber visible under yard lighting, positioned just right of centre; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river station with a weir and turbine house nestled in a valley in the mid-ground. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight or sky glow, heavy 94% overcast clouds faintly visible only where industrial light catches their undersides in dull orange. Temperature is a cool 7.5°C in mid-May: spring foliage on scattered birch and beech trees is fresh green but muted in darkness. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low cloud pressing down, humid air making the steam plumes spread and linger. All lighting is artificial: sodium streetlights line a road in the foreground, control-room windows glow, red aviation lights mark every stack and turbine tip. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere merged with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy — rich dark colour palette of navy, umber, and orange, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective. No text, no labels.