Wind leads at 13.4 GW but 17 GW net imports fill the gap as coal and gas back a high-price summer night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 21%
54%
Renewable share
13.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-17.0 GW
Net import
152.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
45.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 12.0 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or estuary; hard coal 2.3 GW sits as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square chimney just behind the gas plants; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as two medium-sized industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small stacks emitting faint vapour, placed between the coal towers and the wind turbines; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the mid-ground valley, with small floodlights reflecting off dark water. Time is 22:00 on a June night in central Germany: the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, only a half-moon partially obscured by 45% cloud cover giving soft diffuse silver patches among dark clouds. All structures are illuminated solely by artificial light — orange-yellow sodium streetlights along access roads, white floodlights on industrial buildings, red blinking aviation lights on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the very high electricity price: a brooding, weighty quality to the clouds, haze gathering around the cooling towers. Vegetation is lush early-summer green visible only where lights catch it, with leafy deciduous trees and tall grass swaying gently in moderate breeze. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.