Strong wind (32.6 GW) leads generation after dark, but 3.4 GW net imports needed to meet elevated evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
83%
Renewable share
32.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.0 GW
Total generation
-3.4 GW
Net import
96.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 26.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on rolling central German hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a valley. Brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Natural gas 3.4 GW sits in the left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, its facility buildings glowing with warm interior light. Biomass 4.6 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with short stacks and wood-chip conveyors, warmly lit. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and powerhouse at the lower-left edge, water gleaming faintly under lamplight. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller stack behind the biomass facility, barely visible but with a thin exhaust trail. The sky is completely dark — black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 20:00 in April, fully night. An overcast ceiling of 96% cloud cover blocks all stars, creating a heavy, oppressive low canopy reflecting the orange-sodium glow of distant towns on the horizon. The elevated electricity price is conveyed by the dense, low-hanging atmosphere pressing down on the landscape. Spring vegetation — fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees at 11.6°C — is barely visible in the foreground, caught by the spill of a sodium streetlight along a country road. Moderate wind at 12.2 km/h animates the turbine blades and rustles the young leaves. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, charcoal, warm amber, and cool steel grey — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.