Wind leads at 15.9 GW but 8.2 GW net imports needed as coal, gas, and biomass fill a 42.8 GW nighttime load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
62%
Renewable share
15.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
-8.1 GW
Net import
118.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°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
264
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, their red aviation warning lights blinking against a pitch-black sky; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon with tiny red lights above a barely-visible dark sea. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps, with conveyor belts of lignite visible. Natural gas 4.6 GW sits left of centre as two compact CCGT power blocks with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by white floodlights. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears behind them as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and a single squat cooling tower, glowing amber. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest stack and warm golden-lit facility windows in the centre-left. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river station at a dark riverbank in the lower centre, with a low concrete weir and green security lights. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The sky is completely black, no twilight, no moon, only a scattering of stars partly obscured by steam and industrial haze. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a dense, humid pall hangs over the landscape, the sodium and mercury-vapor lights casting sickly orange and white pools on wet-looking pavement and dark grass. Temperature is mild at 15°C so vegetation is lush late-spring green, barely visible in the artificial light. The scene is a wide panoramic composition painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes — yet every engineering detail is meticulous: lattice transmission towers recede into darkness, turbine blade profiles are aerodynamically correct, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry is precise. No text, no labels.