Wind and brown coal anchor a 42.5 GW overnight load; modest net imports and elevated prices reflect tight thermal dispatch.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
57%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.4 GW
Total generation
-2.2 GW
Net import
103.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
62% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
300
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising from a lignite power station, pale steam plumes billowing upward into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the left-centre as two compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin translucent flue gas, their facades glowing under industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-left as a rectangular power station with conveyor belts and a single large chimney, coal piles dimly visible under arc lights; biomass 4.1 GW sits at centre as a smaller wood-chip-fired plant with a broad cylindrical silo and a modest stack, warm amber light spilling from its turbine hall windows; wind onshore 15.6 GW spans the entire right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers receding into the distance across rolling farmland, their red aviation warning lights blinking in staggered rhythm against the darkness; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested far on the right horizon as a faint line of blinking red lights above a barely discernible sea; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the mid-right background, a single floodlit spillway visible. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon, 62% cloud cover rendered as heavy grey-charcoal cloud masses partially obscuring scattered stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated 103 EUR/MWh price — a brooding industrial weight pressing down. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees beginning to bud, damp green grass faintly caught in artificial light. Temperature 7.5°C suggested by mist curling along the ground near the cooling towers. No solar panels anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the sodium-orange industrial glow and the vast surrounding darkness, atmospheric perspective fading the distant turbines into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.