Gas, brown coal, and hard coal anchor overnight supply while 10.7 GW of wind and 8.6 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 19%
44%
Renewable share
10.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.4 GW
Total generation
-8.6 GW
Net import
133.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
377
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into blackness; natural gas 8.1 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by amber sodium floodlights; hard coal 5.3 GW appears centre-right as a gritty power station with a single large rectangular stack and coal conveyors under harsh industrial lighting; wind onshore 8.6 GW spans the right third as a long receding row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors slowly turning, lit faintly by red aviation warning lights; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark waterline; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a squat cylindrical silo and gentle exhaust, nestled between the coal station and the turbines; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam and powerhouse barely visible in the far background with a thin ribbon of white water. The sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever, a deep oppressive canopy pressing down. The only illumination is artificial: orange-yellow sodium streetlights along access roads, white floodlights on plant structures, the dull red glow from within boiler buildings. The ground is early-spring German lowland — bare deciduous trees with the first pale buds, damp brownish-green grass at 8°C, puddles reflecting industrial light. Light wind barely stirs the branches. The overall atmosphere is heavy and brooding, conveying high electricity cost through an oppressive, dense industrial night. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, dramatic tonal contrasts between deep shadow and warm artificial light — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.