Wind leads at 15 GW but gas, brown coal, and hard coal fill the nighttime gap, with 8.3 GW net imports needed.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
55%
Renewable share
16.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.1 GW
Total generation
-8.3 GW
Net import
111.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
302
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across a dark rolling plain, red aircraft warning lights blinking on nacelles; natural gas 7.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium floodlights; brown coal 6.8 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, underlighting from industrial amber floodlights illuminating their concrete surfaces; hard coal 3.9 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys glowing faintly beside the lignite complex; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and conveyor belts under warm security lights, positioned between the gas plant and wind turbines; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure in the foreground with water gleaming under lamplight; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by distant tiny red lights on the far horizon line. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow, a deep navy-black vault with scattered cold stars visible through gaps between the rising steam plumes. The ground is early spring — sparse pale-green grass and bare-branched trees, frost visible on surfaces, temperature near 5°C conveyed through cold blue-grey tones on the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, dense with industrial haze reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep darkness and warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth with receding layers of turbines vanishing into the night, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.