Wind leads at 16.6 GW but elevated thermal dispatch and 6.5 GW net imports reflect zero solar and strong overnight demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
55%
Renewable share
16.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.9 GW
Total generation
-6.6 GW
Net import
100.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.4°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
299
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly glinting sea; brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the blackness; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as a modern CCGT plant with twin slim exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, warmly lit by sodium floodlights; hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure with red aviation warning lights; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a smaller steam chimney glowing from internal furnace light; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam spillway visible in the lower centre, illuminated by a single floodlight. Time is 04:00 in April — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no dawn glow, deep navy-to-black overhead, overcast at 93% so no stars visible, a heavy oppressive cloud ceiling pressing down reflecting faint orange industrial light from below. Temperature is 5.4°C in early spring — bare deciduous trees with only the faintest bud hints, damp meadow grass, patches of lingering frost. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, conveying a high electricity price. Scattered sodium-yellow streetlights line a small road in the mid-ground. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines connect the facilities, their cables disappearing into darkness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack, warm artificial light contrasting against the cold dark void above. No text, no labels.