Wind leads at 15 GW but coal and gas fill a large residual load gap, driving elevated overnight prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 19%
56%
Renewable share
15.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
-6.8 GW
Net import
108.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.8°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
311
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black sky, their concrete shells lit from below by amber sodium floodlights; hard coal 4.9 GW sits just right of centre as a dark industrial plant with conveyor belts, tall smokestacks, and orange furnace glow visible through grated openings; natural gas 4.0 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with sleek single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, illuminated by cool-white industrial LEDs; wind onshore 12.6 GW spans the entire right third and extends into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the night, rotors turning slowly in light 2.9 km/h wind; wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of red blinking lights above a dark unseen sea; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a short broad stack and warm amber interior light glowing from loading bays, situated in the centre-left middle ground; hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam structure in the lower-left foreground with floodlit spillway and faint white water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, overcast at 95% cloud cover so no stars are visible, only a faint diffuse reflection of industrial light on the low cloud ceiling giving a heavy, oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 108.8 EUR/MWh price. The season is early spring: bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, patches of brown grass, temperature near 5 °C suggesting a damp chill with faint mist hugging the ground between the installations. Foreground shows a wet asphalt road reflecting sodium-orange streetlights leading the eye into the industrial panorama. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.