Wind, brown coal, gas, and hard coal lead generation while 16 GW of net imports cover strong evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 18%
52%
Renewable share
16.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
-16.2 GW
Net import
160.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
332
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.8 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line over an unseen North Sea; brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 6.2 GW sits left-of-centre as a hulking power station with conveyor belts and a tall smokestack trailing grey exhaust; natural gas 6.3 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with polished exhaust stacks and a single sharp plume; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed facility with a modest stack and warm amber glow from facility windows; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible in the lower-centre foreground, water catching reflected industrial light. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black overcast night with no stars, no moon, no twilight glow, 100% cloud cover creating a low oppressive ceiling that catches and diffuses the orange-amber industrial light from below, giving the clouds a sickly warm undertone suggesting the high electricity price. The season is early spring: bare branches on some trees, fresh green shoots on others, temperature mild at 13.5°C with damp air. The foreground shows wet spring grass and a muddy path reflecting sodium lamp light. Transmission pylons carrying high-voltage lines cross the mid-ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigo, burnt sienna, and amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze layering the background. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower structures, CCGT heat-recovery units. The mood is heavy, industrious, nocturnal. No text, no labels.