Strong onshore wind leads generation at night, but 6 GW net imports and coal fill the evening demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 14%
68%
Renewable share
27.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
-6.0 GW
Net import
115.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling farmland, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 5.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and glowing heat-recovery units just left of centre; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a single chimney and warm amber-lit fuel yard; hard coal 3.6 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional boiler house with a tall rectangular stack; wind offshore 3.8 GW is suggested on the distant horizon line as faintly lit turbine clusters on a dark sea strip; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the middle distance, floodlit white. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — a clear cloudless April night revealing a field of bright stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the tension of high electricity prices: a faint industrial haze clings low, the sodium streetlights cast a harsh amber pall over the landscape. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees — is barely visible under artificial light. A few lit windows of farmhouses dot the mid-ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, and deep atmospheric perspective, yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, CCGT heat-recovery fin, and coal conveyor belt is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.