Wind leads at 15.3 GW but gas, brown coal, and 9.9 GW net imports fill a sunless evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 18%
54%
Renewable share
16.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.2 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
119.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
13% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 15.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, their rotors turning slowly on a gentle breeze, spread across rolling dark hills; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes glowing faintly from internal facility lighting; natural gas 7.8 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with two slender exhaust stacks venting thin white streams, lit by sodium-orange industrial lamps; hard coal 4.1 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure beside a dark coal yard, between the gas plant and the lignite station; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip burning facility with a squat cylindrical silo and modest chimney near centre-right; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a spillway visible at the base of the hills below the wind turbines; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy to black, with scattered stars visible through only 13% thin cloud wisps — absolutely no twilight, no sunset glow, no sky brightness. The April landscape has sparse early-spring vegetation, bare branches with first pale buds, short dormant grass at 6.2°C. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a brooding, dense quality to the air, faint industrial haze lingering low over the plants. All illumination comes from artificial sources — sodium streetlights casting amber pools, lit control-room windows, red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles and smokestacks, the eerie internal glow of cooling towers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich dark colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the amber-lit industrial structures, atmospheric depth with distant haze, meticulous engineering detail on every technology — a masterwork painting of the nocturnal industrial landscape. No text, no labels.