Coal, gas, and onshore wind anchor overnight generation as 8 GW net imports cover remaining German demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 19%
51%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.2 GW
Total generation
-8.0 GW
Net import
104.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
327
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky; natural gas 7.0 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys emitting faint grey smoke; wind onshore 12.1 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; biomass 4.1 GW is a modest wood-chip CHP plant in the mid-ground with a conveyor belt and a single low stack with warm amber exhaust glow; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam with spillway visible in the far left background, floodlit; wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. The scene is set at 1 AM on a cold April night: the sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, stars faintly visible through clear atmosphere — zero cloud cover. The landscape is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along access roads, the amber glow of lit industrial windows, and red warning lights on stacks and turbine nacelles. Frost glints on bare early-spring grass and leafless trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the high electricity price — a subtle sickly amber haze clings near the industrial facilities. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of deep navy, black, burnt sienna, and amber — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and gas-turbine exhaust cowl. No text, no labels.