High imports and thermal dispatch drive a 218 EUR/MWh evening price as wind and coal share domestic generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
55%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.9 GW
Solar
33.4 GW
Total generation
-23.4 GW
Net import
217.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
19.0% / 119.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
293
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.0 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across gentle rolling hills, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 5.2 GW dominates the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, adjacent open-pit lignite conveyors visible; natural gas 6.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.9 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional coal station with a single squat cooling tower and coal bunker; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with rounded wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack glowing warmly, positioned centre-right; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by distant turbines visible on a far horizon line beyond a river estuary; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the middle distance nestled in a forested valley; solar 1.9 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching the very last residual glow, almost dark. TIME: 20:00 in late May — the sky is deep navy-black overhead, no twilight remains, only the faintest dark blue band at the western horizon; all illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along roads, glowing industrial facility windows, and the incandescent glow of furnaces inside the coal plants. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hazy warm air at 27.7°C with barely any wind motion visible in the vegetation — lush green late-spring foliage on deciduous trees, full canopy, wildflowers in meadows. Clouds are minimal, only a few wisps, revealing scattered stars above. The overall mood is tense and industrially magnificent: the warm night presses down while the infrastructure blazes with artificial light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of navy, amber, ochre, and warm grey; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground industry and distant wind turbines; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame; dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the glowing industrial heart of the scene. No text, no labels.