Wind leads at 13.6 GW but 15.6 GW net imports are needed as coal and gas backstop a solar-absent night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 21%
57%
Renewable share
13.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.9 GW
Total generation
-15.6 GW
Net import
134.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
52.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
294
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.2 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers, their steam plumes rising pale grey-white against a deep navy-black night sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 5.3 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, bathed in harsh white security lighting. Wind onshore 11.4 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in slow rhythm across a dark rolling landscape, blades turning gently in light wind. Wind offshore 2.2 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon, their lights reflected faintly in a sliver of dark sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting a thin pale plume, positioned between the coal towers and the gas units. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single concrete stack, set behind the brown coal complex, its glow dimmer. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a concrete dam structure with spillway in the far left background at the base of dark forested hills. The sky is completely dark — no twilight, no sunset glow — a black canopy at 23:00 in June, with scattered stars barely visible through 52% cloud cover rendered as drifting grey masses. The atmosphere is heavy, slightly oppressive, hazy with industrial moisture, reflecting the high 134.8 EUR/MWh price. Temperature of 12.5°C is conveyed through lush but dark summer vegetation — dense deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grasses — all rendered in deep shadow greens and blacks. The entire scene is painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the night, atmospheric depth with layers receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.