Wind leads at 19.1 GW but 5.9 GW net imports needed as coal and gas fill overnight residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
62%
Renewable share
19.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.7 GW
Total generation
-5.9 GW
Net import
111.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
272
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers stretching across a dark, flat North German plain, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon with tiny red aviation warning lights. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights of the industrial complex. Natural gas 4.2 GW sits left-of-center as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer, illuminated by floodlights. Hard coal 3.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack beside a dark coal stockpile, adjacent to the lignite station. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a small stack with warm exhaust, positioned in the mid-ground between the thermal plants and the turbines. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a small run-of-river station with a weir and turbine house along a dark river reflecting industrial lights in the center-left foreground. The sky is entirely black with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever, a deep oppressive overcast pressing down heavily suggesting the high electricity price. The landscape is lush early-summer green grass and leafy trees barely visible in the darkness, temperature around 15°C suggesting mild humid air. Artificial light sources only: sodium-orange streetlamps lining a road, white floodlights on industrial facilities, red blinking lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of deep navy, black, burnt umber, and warm orange from industrial lighting — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.