Brown coal, gas, and wind lead a 30.5 GW supply against 45.8 GW demand, driving high prices and significant imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 23%
48%
Renewable share
8.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
-15.2 GW
Net import
136.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
77.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the dark sky; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the center-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers across rolling hills, rotors turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 5.6 GW appears center-left as a compact CCGT facility with two slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.6 GW sits in the mid-ground as a wood-chip-fed generating plant with a wide corrugated-metal fuel hall and a single smokestack trailing pale vapor; hard coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as a classic coal-fired station with a tall concrete chimney and conveyor belts; wind offshore 2.3 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines faintly lit by navigation lights; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure nestled in a forested valley at the far right. The scene is set at 22:00 in mid-May — full nighttime darkness, a deep navy-black sky with 77% cloud cover obscuring most stars, no twilight glow whatsoever. All facilities are illuminated only by sodium-orange industrial floodlights, glowing control-room windows, and red aviation warning lights atop turbines and stacks. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low haze clings to the ground, steam plumes spread and flatten against the cloud deck. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and leafy birch and linden trees — is barely visible in the artificial light. Temperature around 10°C gives a cool dampness to the air with faint mist in the valleys. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich, dark color palette, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.