Wind leads at 20.5 GW but coal and gas provide 19.8 GW of thermal backup on a cold, dark April night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
57%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.7 GW
Total generation
-1.3 GW
Net import
105.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
296
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across a dark rolling landscape, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible sliver of black sea. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Natural gas 7.1 GW fills the centre-left as compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks venting thin white plumes, illuminated by facility floodlights. Hard coal 4.7 GW appears as a mid-sized coal plant with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor structures behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.1 GW is represented by a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a green-lit silo and small chimney near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW shows as a small concrete dam structure with spillway at the far left edge. Time is 04:00 at night: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow, heavy 98% overcast obscuring all stars, creating an oppressive low ceiling reflecting faint industrial orange light. Temperature is 4.3°C: early spring, bare deciduous trees with only the faintest bud hints, patches of frost on fields, cold damp atmosphere with visible breath-like haze near ground level. Wind speed is low at ground level but implied aloft by turning turbine blades. The elevated price of 105.1 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a heavy, brooding, oppressive atmosphere—thick low clouds pressing down. No solar panels anywhere, no sunshine. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, dark palette of deep blues, amber industrial glow, charcoal greys—visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry, coal conveyor trusses. The scene feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.