Wind leads at 23 GW but brown coal and gas run hard to meet 51 GW nighttime demand near freezing.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
58%
Renewable share
23.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.9 GW
Total generation
-2.0 GW
Net import
106.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
16% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
303
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across a flat northern German plain, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on the dark horizon above a barely visible sea line. Brown coal 11.1 GW occupies the left third as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 5.5 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin tall exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by blue-white facility lighting. Hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-left as a coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure, lit by amber floodlights. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered centre-right as a modest industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a short stack with faint exhaust, warmly lit. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam structure in the middle distance with water glinting under artificial light. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black late-night sky with no twilight, no glow on the horizon, and a scattering of faint stars visible through 16% cloud cover rendered as thin high cirrus wisps. No solar panels, no sunshine. The ground shows late-winter landscape: bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on brown grass, temperature near freezing evident in the crisp mist hugging the ground around the cooling towers. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — dense, weighty air pressing down, reflecting the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark tones of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublimity, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, chiaroscuro contrasts between the black sky and the sodium-lit industrial complexes. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.