Wind leads at 13.9 GW but heavy coal and gas dispatch plus 4.7 GW net imports meet overnight demand at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 20%
56%
Renewable share
13.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.4 GW
Total generation
-4.7 GW
Net import
101.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
44% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.8 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers receding across dark rolling fields into deep perspective; wind offshore 2.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a barely visible dark sea. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 4.2 GW sits just right of centre-left as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a tall chimney stack trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 4.1 GW appears centre-frame as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad generating hall with a steaming vent beside stacked timber, placed between the coal plant and the turbines. Hydro 1.3 GW shows as a small concrete dam and penstock structure in the left middle distance beside a dark river. Time is 02:00 at night: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow—only a scattering of cold stars visible through 44 percent broken cloud. All structures are illuminated solely by harsh sodium-orange industrial lighting, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and chimney tips, and warm glowing windows in control buildings. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price—low haze clings to the ground, steam plumes press downward in still, cold 1.7°C April air. Early spring vegetation is dormant: bare-branched trees, brown stubble fields, patches of frost. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, ochre, and warm amber; visible confident brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro; atmospheric depth with industrial haze softening distant turbines. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and rotor hubs, aluminium cooling-tower frameworks, CCGT exhaust diffusers, conveyor gantries. The scene evokes a masterwork nocturnal industrial landscape. No text, no labels.