Wind leads at 20.4 GW but 13.1 GW net imports fill the gap left by absent solar at nightfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
68%
Renewable share
20.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.2 GW
Total generation
-13.1 GW
Net import
121.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears in the distant far right as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed beyond the hills. Brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Biomass 4.1 GW sits in the centre-left as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rectangular stack and warm amber-lit windows, woodchip storage visible. Natural gas 3.4 GW appears centre-right as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest steam plume. Hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller dark industrial complex with a conveyor belt and squat cooling tower adjacent to the brown coal station on the far left. Hydro 2.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the middle distance between the gas plant and the wind turbines. The time is 22:00 on a summer night: the sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow, only a deep charcoal-navy canopy pressing down oppressively to reflect the high electricity price. All facilities are illuminated solely by artificial light — sodium-orange streetlights, industrial floodlights casting pools of warm amber, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and cooling towers. The vegetation is lush early-summer green visible only where light reaches it, with June grasses and wildflowers at ground level. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, slightly hazy — an oppressive industrial night. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, deep tonal contrasts, dramatic chiaroscuro between the artificial lights and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with distant turbines fading into murk. Meticulous engineering detail on every structure — correct nacelle housings, three-blade rotor geometry, aluminium-framed infrastructure, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower curvature with condensation rivulets. No text, no labels, no people.