Wind and brown coal anchor overnight generation while 8 GW of net imports cover the consumption gap under full cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.4 GW
Total generation
-8.0 GW
Net import
125.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 9.5 GW fills the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.3 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in terrain; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with faint exhaust; hard coal 2.5 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam face with spillway in the middle distance, faintly lit. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 100 percent overcast with no stars and no moon visible, a heavy oppressive cloud ceiling pressing low — reflecting the high electricity price. All illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium streetlights lining an access road, glowing windows in control buildings, red aviation warning lights atop every turbine nacelle and smokestack. Late May vegetation: lush dark-green deciduous trees and grass, barely visible in the darkness but catching the warm spill of facility lighting. Temperature is mild at 15.6°C — no frost, slight mist hugging the ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and cadmium orange, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every engineering detail is meticulous: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic concrete shells, CCGT exhaust cowls. No text, no labels.