Wind leads at 22.4 GW with brown coal and gas providing firm backup on a cold, dark March night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
66%
Renewable share
22.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.3 GW
Total generation
+0.9 GW
Net export
89.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
232
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with lattice towers and white nacelles stretching across rolling dark hillsides into the deep distance; wind offshore 6.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a black North Sea horizon at far right; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber industrial lighting; natural gas 4.8 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall single exhaust stacks and gleaming steel pipes under sodium-vapor floodlights; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a domed digester and short chimney emitting faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belt structure; hydro 1.2 GW is represented as a small illuminated dam and spillway in a valley at far left. TIME: 04:00 — completely dark night sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, scattered cold stars barely visible through thin industrial haze. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low-hanging steam and industrial vapour press down across the scene. Temperature 4.2 °C: bare early-spring trees with no leaves, frost glinting on steel structures and grass, breath-like condensation around machinery. No solar panels anywhere, no sunshine. Ground-level sodium streetlights cast orange pools along access roads. Distant town windows glow faintly warm. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of blacks, navy blues, warm ambers and cold silvers — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered fog and industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower reinforcement ring, CCGT exhaust stack, and conveyor structure. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness merged with industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.