Wind leads at 12.4 GW but 14.7 GW net imports are needed as midnight demand outpaces domestic generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
56%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.8 GW
Total generation
-14.7 GW
Net import
116.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°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
299
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 9.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of offshore turbines silhouetted against the horizon over a dark sea; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and coal bunkers, lit by banks of sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.8 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks and heat-recovery enclosures, their steel structures bathed in warm halogen light; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas units, a single shorter stack with a thin plume; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized CHP facility with a timber-framed fuel storage hall and a modest chimney, visible centre-right near the turbine field; hydro 2.0 GW is a concrete dam structure in the far background with water cascading, illuminated by small spotlights. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black with a solid 100% overcast ceiling — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — only a deep charcoal-grey cloud mass faintly reflecting the industrial light below. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low-hanging clouds press down upon the landscape, humid summer air making the steam plumes spread and linger. Temperature is mild at 11°C; the vegetation is lush early-summer green, visible only where sodium streetlights and facility floods illuminate the foreground grasses and roadside trees. Transmission lines on steel pylons cut diagonally across the mid-ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between glowing industrial islands and the vast surrounding darkness, atmospheric sfumato in the steam and cloud layers — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and CCGT stack is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.