Wind leads at 21 GW but thermal plants and 4.7 GW net imports are needed to meet nighttime demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
60%
Renewable share
21.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.3 GW
Total generation
-4.7 GW
Net import
105.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.1 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light wind, spread across rolling spring fields with early green vegetation. Wind offshore 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a valley. Natural gas 7.0 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin translucent plumes, warmly lit by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left quarter as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam columns, alongside a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile, lit from below by floodlights. Hard coal 3.7 GW sits as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square stack between the gas and brown coal plants. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a wood-chip facility with a modest chimney and timber storage yard near centre. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure visible in a river valley in the lower foreground. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, cloudless, revealing a canopy of stars and a faint Milky Way; absolutely no twilight, no sky glow on the horizon. The April landscape at 6°C shows bare-branched deciduous trees beginning to bud, with frost-tinged grass. The overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — a subtle haze hangs low, lit amber and orange by industrial sodium lamps, evoking high electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of Prussian blue, burnt umber, and warm ochre; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of mist and industrial steam; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.