Wind leads at 21 GW but gas, brown coal, and hard coal fill a significant gap on a dark, cold April night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 14%
59%
Renewable share
21.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
-3.3 GW
Net import
106.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
270
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on a black sea horizon marked by faint nacelle lights. Natural gas 8.0 GW fills the centre-left as a large CCGT power station with paired exhaust stacks emitting pale vapour, lit by harsh sodium floodlights. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick steam plumes, with a lignite conveyor belt faintly visible under industrial lamps. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits just left of centre as a smaller coal plant with a tall chimney and coal stockpile illuminated by amber security lighting. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest stack and warm-lit loading bay in the centre-right middle ground. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background, floodlit in cool white. The sky is completely black with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy overcast void pressing down on the landscape. Temperature is 4.3 °C: early spring with bare trees, patches of dormant brown grass, and a thin ground mist clinging to low areas. The atmosphere feels oppressive and dense, reflecting the high electricity price. All artificial light sources cast sharp sodium-orange and cool-white pools against the surrounding darkness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, dark colour palette of deep navy, umber, ochre, and slate grey; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT exhaust stacks. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness fused with industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.