Wind leads generation at 14.3 GW but 6.1 GW net imports needed as thermal plants support cold overnight demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 19%
54%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.1 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
110.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.1°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
322
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.0 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat North German plain, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness; wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea. Brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 5.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.5 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker, grittier facility with conveyor belts and a single large chimney trailing thin grey smoke. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and warm amber glow from loading bays, positioned centre-right. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the distant centre background with faint spillway lights. The sky is completely black to deep navy — it is 4 AM in April, no twilight, no sky glow, 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars. Temperature is near freezing: thin frost coats the bare early-spring grass and leafless trees; no green foliage yet. Wind speed is low so turbine blades turn slowly. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — thick low clouds press down, lit from beneath in sickly orange by the industrial complexes. All illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium streetlights along access roads, fluorescent lights in plant windows, red blinking hazard lights on stacks and turbine nacelles. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between black sky and orange-lit industrial glow, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.