Wind leads at 20.9 GW with brown coal and gas providing firm backup during a dark, overcast spring night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
21.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.0 GW
Total generation
-1.5 GW
Net import
95.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
213
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles receding across a flat northern German plain into deep darkness; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of lit offshore turbines on a black North Sea horizon at far right. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Biomass 4.1 GW sits just right of centre as a mid-sized industrial plant with a corrugated-metal façade, a single smokestack with a faint bluish exhaust, and a wood-chip storage dome glowing under floodlights. Natural gas 4.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility behind the biomass plant, featuring a tall slender exhaust stack with heat shimmer and a smaller auxiliary turbine housing, all illuminated by white industrial lighting. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal station to the far left with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts, dimly lit. Hydro 1.3 GW is a modest concrete dam structure visible at the far background centre, with a thin cascade of white water catching floodlight. Time is 02:00 on an April night: sky is completely black with heavy 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight — only artificial light sources. Temperature is 7°C; bare branches on scattered birch trees show early spring buds, damp grass glistens. Surface air is still — no visible motion in nearby vegetation, but the distant turbine blades are in full rotation. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a thick low ceiling of invisible cloud pressing down, reflecting the orange and white industrial glow in a diffuse halo above the plants. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth recalling Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnal moods merged with industrial sublime. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, and conveyor structures. No text, no labels.