Wind onshore leads at 14.5 GW but thermal plants and net imports fill a 4.3 GW overnight gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 17%
56%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.6 GW
Total generation
-4.2 GW
Net import
112.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
296
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.5 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a rolling central German plateau, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 5.9 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single large chimney and coal conveyors beside the gas plant, glowing under orange work lights; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad generating station with a gently smoking stack near the centre; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure at the base of a forested hillside in the middle distance; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a faint line of tiny red aviation warning lights on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, heavy 93% overcast with no stars or moon visible, no twilight glow whatsoever — it is 4 AM. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 112.9 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a cool 6.5°C; sparse early-spring vegetation — bare branches with only the earliest green buds — covers the foreground meadow, dew glistening under the reflected industrial glow. Sodium streetlights along a small road trace an orange line through the midground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and CCGT exhaust stack is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.