Wind leads at 24 GW with coal and gas providing 20 GW of thermal support on a cool, overcast midnight.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 17%
59%
Renewable share
24.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
109.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
289
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 18.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling dark hills; wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible dark sea on the horizon. Brown coal 8.6 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lights of an industrial lignite complex. Hard coal 5.9 GW sits left of centre as a large coal-fired power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belt structures, glowing dimly under floodlights. Natural gas 5.8 GW fills the centre as compact CCGT units with slim single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by facility lighting. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-chip power plant with a squat smokestack and domed storage silos near centre-left. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway in the lower-left foreground, lit by a single security lamp. Solar 0.0 GW: no solar panels visible anywhere. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon glow, heavy 81% cloud cover obscuring all stars — an oppressive, low, heavy overcast ceiling pressing down, conveying the elevated 109 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is 3°C in late March: bare deciduous trees with only the faintest buds, patches of frost on grass, breath-like mist near ground level. Wind speed is moderate at 7.2 km/h, so turbine blades turn slowly. The landscape is lit only by artificial light — warm sodium-orange streetlights lining a road in the foreground, white-blue industrial floodlights on the power stations, and the eerie glow of steam plumes catching facility light from below. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and enveloping darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.