Wind leads at 21.6 GW but thermal plants and net imports of ~5.9 GW are needed to meet nighttime demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 14%
59%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.3 GW
Total generation
-5.9 GW
Net import
116.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
269
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 15.8 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across a dark rolling plain, their aviation warning lights blinking red; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines on the distant horizon over a barely visible North Sea. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange floodlights. Natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, their aluminium cladding catching industrial floodlight. Hard coal 4.2 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single large unit with a rectangular boiler house, conveyor belt, and a shorter cooling tower with a faint steam wisp. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized plant to the centre-right with a cylindrical silo and a modest stack with warm-toned exhaust. Hydro 1.5 GW is represented by a small concrete dam structure at the far left edge with water spilling dimly. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, fully overcast with no stars and no moon visible — a heavy, oppressive cloud ceiling pressing low. No solar panels anywhere. The temperature is near freezing: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest bud swelling, patches of frost on fields between turbines. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly — thick industrial haze mingles with cooling tower steam under the artificial glow. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the sodium-lit industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with mist layering, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.