Wind and thermal plants share generation while 15.6 GW of net imports bridge a nighttime supply gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
56%
Renewable share
14.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.5 GW
Total generation
-15.6 GW
Net import
153.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.5 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers receding into the distance across rolling dark farmland; natural gas 7.4 GW occupies the centre-right as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin plumes lit from below by sodium lights; brown coal 5.2 GW fills the centre-left with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing heavy white steam plumes glowing faintly orange from facility lighting; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a woodchip conveyor and a single squat smokestack near the left; hard coal 3.1 GW sits at the far left as a smaller coal-fired station with angular boiler houses and a tall chimney; hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a dam structure barely visible in the far background valley. Wind offshore 3.4 GW is hinted at by distant turbine silhouettes on the far-right horizon line suggesting a coast. The sky is completely dark — deep black to navy, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 22:00 in late May. A cloudless night sky with sparse stars faintly visible but largely washed out by the industrial glow. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — a dense, close warmth suggested by warm-toned haze around the industrial facilities. Temperature is 21.5°C so vegetation is lush late-spring green, visible where sodium streetlights and facility floodlights spill across the foreground meadow. No solar panels anywhere. No sunshine. All illumination comes from artificial sources — amber sodium lamps, white facility floodlights, red aircraft warning lights on turbine nacelles, glowing control-room windows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with industrial haze — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.