Wind leads at 15.2 GW with brown coal and gas supporting; 12.1 GW net imports fill the overnight gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
62%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.6 GW
Total generation
-12.2 GW
Net import
102.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
261
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon. Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps. Natural gas 4.3 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin white plumes, illuminated by industrial floodlights. Hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square chimney behind the gas facility. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial building with a wood-chip storage dome and a single moderate smokestack, positioned centre-left. Hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete dam structure nestled in a valley in the centre background, with water glinting faintly under artificial lighting. The time is 1:00 AM — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no glow on the horizon, only a deep navy-black firmament with 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low-hanging clouds press down on the landscape, faintly lit from below by the industrial glow of the power plants. Temperature is a cool 11°C in mid-June; vegetation is lush and green but visible only where sodium streetlights and facility lighting cast pools of warm orange-amber light. A network of high-voltage transmission pylons crosses the middle ground, cables disappearing into darkness, symbolizing the heavy imports flowing into the system. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the black sky and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth with mist curling around the cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic forms, and CCGT exhaust infrastructure. The mood is sombre, industrious, and vast. No text, no labels.