Wind and thermal baseload share a warm summer night, with 7.2 GW net imports covering the generation gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
54%
Renewable share
12.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.5 GW
Total generation
-7.1 GW
Net import
121.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
23.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
309
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 6.6 GW appears centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing control rooms; hard coal 2.7 GW sits behind the gas plants as a smaller conventional power station with a single squat smokestack and red aviation warning lights; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded digester dome and wood-chip storage lit by floodlights, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.7 GW appears in the near foreground as a concrete dam spillway with dark water reflecting industrial lights; wind offshore 1.8 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a small cluster of turbines with blinking red nacelle lights. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with scattered stars visible through 23 percent partial cloud cover, absolutely no twilight or sky glow on the horizon. The warm 22-degree summer night is suggested by lush dark-green deciduous foliage on foreground trees. The atmosphere is heavy and slightly hazy, conveying the oppressive weight of the high 121 EUR/MWh price — a faint industrial murk hangs in the still air. All facilities glow with sodium-orange and white artificial lighting. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colours, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial light pools and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with distant turbines fading into haze. Each technology depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.