Wind leads at 20.7 GW with brown coal and gas backstopping a 1.7 GW net import gap at elevated overnight prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
20.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.3 GW
Total generation
-1.7 GW
Net import
88.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
209
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 4.3 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible dark sea; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium lamps; natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling unit, warmly lit by orange industrial lights; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage silo and a modest smokestack, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in the mid-ground valley; hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular cooling tower near the brown coal complex. TIME: 04:00 at night — completely dark sky, no twilight, no sky glow, deep black-navy heavens with no stars visible through 100% overcast cloud cover. All illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting amber pools, glowing industrial windows, and red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, dense low clouds pressing down, reflecting the amber glow of the industrial installations faintly. The landscape is early spring in central Germany — bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, cool-toned dormant grass, patches of mud, temperature near 6°C suggested by a slight mist clinging to low ground. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, warm ambers, and smoky greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The mood evokes Caspar David Friedrich reimagining an industrial nocturne — sublime, brooding, vast. No text, no labels.