Wind, brown coal, and gas lead generation while 18 GW of net imports fill the evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
53%
Renewable share
12.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.2 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-18.1 GW
Net import
134.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
16% / 86.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
314
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.0 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green spring hills; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the darkening sky; natural gas 8.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.6 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack and coal conveyors beside it; biomass 4.6 GW is represented by a mid-sized biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a small flare stack glowing faintly; solar 3.2 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground catching the very last orange light; hydro 1.7 GW sits as a small dam and spillway in the far background valley; wind offshore 1.1 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a distant hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. The time is 19:00 in April — dusk, with a narrow band of deep orange-red glow hugging the western horizon, the sky above transitioning from dark amber to deep blue-grey, first stars barely visible overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a dense, brooding haze hangs over the industrial structures. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees. Moderate wind suggested by gently bending grass and slowly turning turbine blades. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines crossing the scene hint at the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour palette, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro where the last warm light contrasts with the encroaching cool darkness. Every power technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, cooling tower parabolic curvature with condensation drift, CCGT heat recovery steam generators. The scene feels like a monumental masterwork painting of the modern industrial-pastoral landscape at twilight. No text, no labels, no human figures.