Wind leads at 15.3 GW but a 10.8 GW net import gap and gas-on-margin drive prices to 134.8 EUR/MWh overnight.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
59%
Renewable share
15.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.5 GW
Total generation
-10.8 GW
Net import
134.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles receding across dark rolling hills into the distance; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a faint cluster of lit turbines on a far horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills; natural gas 6.5 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power plant complex with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by orange sodium floodlights; brown coal 5.1 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the black sky, illuminated from below by industrial floodlights; hard coal 2.4 GW sits beside them as a smaller conventional plant with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of smaller industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and a short stack, warmly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure with water glinting in artificial light at the far right edge. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep black-navy with no twilight, no sky glow, no moon; stars faintly visible. The warm late-May night means lush green vegetation barely visible in the spill of amber and white industrial lighting. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a faint haze hanging in the still air reflecting the high electricity price — almost no wind at ground level, trees motionless, an uneasy calm. Sodium streetlights line a road in the foreground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of blacks, dark blues, warm ambers and pale steam whites; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of industrial silhouettes receding into darkness; meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, and conveyor structures. The painting evokes the sublime tension between nature's dark stillness and industry's glowing persistence. No text, no labels.