Strong onshore and offshore wind carry over 83% of nighttime demand while modest thermal and biomass units fill the remainder.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
84%
Renewable share
31.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.8 GW
Total generation
-0.8 GW
Net import
102.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
77.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
110
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling mid-German hills into deep darkness, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of taller offshore turbines silhouetted against a black horizon. Biomass 4.2 GW occupies the centre-left as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a gently lit stack and warm amber glow from facility windows. Brown coal 2.9 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller coal-fired station beside the lignite plant, a single square stack with dim red aviation lights. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir in the lower foreground with dark water reflecting artificial light. The sky is fully dark — deep navy to black, no twilight whatsoever, 77% cloud cover rendering the sky a heavy, oppressive blanket without stars, only faint sodium-orange light pollution reflected off cloud bases. The atmosphere feels heavy and warm for a June night at 14°C, with lush green vegetation barely visible in the foreground lit by facility glow. No solar panels anywhere. The landscape conveys gentle pressure — an elevated price mood rendered as a brooding, dense atmosphere pressing down on the scene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial light sources and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into blackness, technically precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness merged with meticulous industrial realism. No text, no labels.