Wind dominates at 20.5 GW but coal, gas, and net imports fill the midnight gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.9 GW
Total generation
-3.5 GW
Net import
100.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
3% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
228
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 16.8 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers receding into deep distance across rolling farmland; wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line at far right above a sliver of black sea. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 4.6 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT facility with two slender exhaust stacks and a glowing turbine hall. Biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-left as a mid-sized plant with a timber-clad fuel storage building and a single stack releasing pale vapour. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a smaller conventional plant just visible behind the biomass facility with a single squat cooling tower. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in low hills at far left. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black with a scattering of cold white stars and a clear, near-full moon faintly illuminating thin wisps of cloud—cloud cover is only 3%. No sunrise glow, no twilight—pure deep night. The air carries an oppressive, heavy quality reflecting the high electricity price: low mist clings to the ground and the industrial steam plumes feel dense and weighty. Temperature is 9°C in late April: early spring foliage on scattered birch and beech trees, fresh green leaves just emerging, damp grass. Wind turbine blades show slight motion blur despite calm surface winds. All facilities are lit by warm sodium and cool LED industrial lighting that reflects off wet surfaces. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light pools and surrounding darkness, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, and plant structures. No text, no labels.