Wind leads at 21.9 GW but gas, brown coal, and hard coal run heavily to meet 46 GW evening demand without solar.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 14%
59%
Renewable share
22.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.2 GW
Total generation
+1.2 GW
Net export
121.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
270
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a black sea on the horizon. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin plumes, their metal casings glowing under floodlights. Hard coal 4.2 GW sits behind the gas plants as a smaller station with a single square cooling tower and coal conveyor belts visible under work lights. Biomass 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a mid-sized industrial building with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with a faint plume. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam structure nestled in a valley at far centre with water glinting faintly under lamplight. No solar panels anywhere—zero solar generation. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 95% overcast with no stars visible, no twilight, no sky glow—a true 21:00 April night. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low clouds press down on the industrial landscape, faintly illuminated from below by orange and white artificial lights from the power stations. Temperature is a chilly 5.6°C; early spring vegetation is sparse, with bare-branched trees and pale new grass barely visible in the foreground. Light wind stirs the turbine blades at moderate speed. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich deep colour palette of navy, charcoal, amber, and ivory, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling tower plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.