Strong wind and substantial coal and gas baseload serve midnight demand under full overcast, with 2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
61%
Renewable share
21.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.4 GW
Total generation
-2.0 GW
Net import
114.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
274
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a sliver of black sea. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; hard coal 4.5 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a smaller set of stocky chimneys and conveyor gantries with red aviation warning lights. Natural gas 5.8 GW fills the center-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, lit by floodlights. Biomass 4.3 GW appears in the center as a medium-sized facility with a domed digester and wood-chip storage shed, warm interior light spilling through large doors. Hydro 1.4 GW is represented in the lower center by a small dam spillway with white rushing water catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight, no moon visible, 100% cloud cover creating a low oppressive ceiling that reflects the orange-sodium glow of the industrial plants below. The atmosphere feels heavy and warm-tinted near the ground, cool and inky above, conveying the high electricity price as a brooding density in the air. Spring vegetation on the hills is barely visible — young green grass and budding trees faintly illuminated by spill light, temperature around 7°C suggested by a thin ground mist. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flue, and CCGT stack — a grand industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.