Strong wind (27.5 GW) leads generation but 9 GW net imports needed as evening demand exceeds domestic supply under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 53%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
27.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
41.6 GW
Total generation
-8.9 GW
Net import
115.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning briskly; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible through haze; brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.2 GW sits left of center as a mid-sized power plant with rectangular buildings, wood-chip conveyors, and a single stack trailing thin grey smoke; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and a modest vapor trail, positioned center-left; hydro 1.6 GW is represented by a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the mid-ground; hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller industrial facility with a squat chimney near the brown coal complex. TIME: 21:00 in June — fully dark, black sky with no twilight glow, no sunset colors, a completely overcast ceiling of invisible low clouds reflecting faint amber light pollution from below. No stars, no moon. The landscape is illuminated only by artificial light: sodium streetlamps casting orange pools along roads, glowing windows of control buildings, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and cooling towers, floodlit steam plumes glowing white-orange against the void. Temperature 14.7°C: lush early-summer vegetation, dense green grass and leafy trees barely visible in the darkness. Wind 12 km/h: moderate motion in grass and turbine blades. ATMOSPHERE: heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 115.4 EUR/MWh price — thick humid air, a brooding claustrophobic darkness pressing down on the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, but depicting an industrial nocturne — rich deep blues, blacks, warm oranges, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with correct proportions, CCGT exhaust stacks. The painting conveys sublime tension between nature's dark power and human industry. No text, no labels.