Strong wind (23.3 GW) and heavy brown coal (7.3 GW) anchor overnight generation, but 2.8 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
67%
Renewable share
23.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.4 GW
Total generation
-2.8 GW
Net import
88.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
79% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
232
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.6 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a rolling North German Plain, rotors turning slowly against the dark sky; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon line above a barely visible dark sea; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps of a lignite power station complex in the Rhineland; natural gas 4.5 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack and conveyor belts beside a coal pile, glowing under amber work lights; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip CHP facility with a low conical stack and warm interior glow visible through warehouse windows, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway gleaming faintly at the far left edge. The time is 2 AM in March: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon, heavy 79% cloud cover obscuring stars, creating an oppressive low ceiling reflecting the industrial glow beneath. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and brooding — conveying the 88.8 EUR/MWh high price tension. Temperature 6.2 °C means bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on dormant fields, early spring but still wintry. Faint mist clings to the ground between turbine bases. Sodium-orange and cold-white industrial lighting casts dramatic contrasts. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime. Meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.