Strong wind leads generation but post-sunset thermal dispatch and 4.1 GW net imports are needed to meet evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
23.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
-4.1 GW
Net import
124.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
26% / 30.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
231
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.4 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 4.7 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of offshore turbines on a dark horizon over a barely visible sea. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by amber sodium industrial lamps, surrounded by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Natural gas 4.8 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, flanked by piping and a glowing control building. Hard coal 3.4 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square chimney and reddish glow from a coal yard. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered centre-left as a cluster of industrial biogas digesters — green cylindrical tanks with small flare stacks — and a wood-chip CHP plant with a modest smokestack. Hydro 1.6 GW is represented as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the mid-ground, water catching faint reflections of industrial light. Solar 0.1 GW is absent from the scene — no panels visible. TIME: 20:00 in mid-April — fully dark, deep navy-to-black sky, no twilight remaining, stars faintly visible through 26% cloud cover which appears as thin high wisps. All lighting is artificial: orange-sodium streetlights along access roads, white security floods on industrial facilities, warm yellow glowing windows in control rooms. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, haze hanging low between the cooling towers suggesting high electricity prices. Temperature 8.3°C — early spring vegetation, bare branches on some trees, new green shoots on others, damp ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of deep blues, burnt oranges, and industrial ambers — with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato haze, but meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.