Wind leads at 13.2 GW but 8.6 GW net imports needed overnight as gas and lignite support high-priced baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
13.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.5 GW
Total generation
-8.6 GW
Net import
128.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.4°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
79.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers and detailed nacelles, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, stretching across dark rolling hills; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights of an industrial complex; natural gas 5.5 GW sits center-left as compact CCGT power station blocks with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin translucent heat plumes, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; biomass 3.8 GW appears center-right as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a squat chimney and conveyor belts, warmly lit; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested in the far background as a faint line of red aviation warning lights on the distant horizon representing offshore turbines; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small dam structure in the middle distance with water flowing, lit by a single blue-white lamp; hard coal 2.5 GW shows as a secondary coal plant with a single large smokestack near the lignite complex. The sky is completely black to deep navy — it is 1 AM, no twilight, no sky glow, no moon visible, heavy 79% cloud cover erasing all stars, creating a dense oppressive ceiling reflecting the orange industrial glow from below. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, conveying the high electricity price. Late-May vegetation: lush dark green deciduous trees in full leaf barely visible in the gloom, warm 19°C air suggested by a slight ground-level haze. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the sodium-orange industrial glow, atmospheric depth with layers receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.