Wind leads at 22.3 GW but 10.9 GW net imports needed as thermal plants and evening demand drive prices to 127 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 15%
59%
Renewable share
22.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
-10.9 GW
Net import
127.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning moderately; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying lignite visible at their base; natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.5 GW sits just behind the gas plants as a dark blocky power station with a single large chimney and coal stockpile; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and woodchip yard in the centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure with water cascading, tucked into the lower-left valley. Time is 20:00 in April — the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight remains, 100% cloud cover so no stars visible, an oppressive heavy overcast pressing down. The scene is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along a road threading between the facilities, warm yellow-white industrial floodlights on the power plants, and the faint amber glow from cooling tower interiors. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and early-leafing deciduous trees, barely visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, slightly hazy from steam mixing with cloud-base, conveying the tension of a high-price evening hour. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigos, warm ambers, and cool greys; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into darkness; meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.