Strong onshore wind leads nighttime generation but thermal plants and 2.8 GW net imports fill the remaining demand gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 49%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
68%
Renewable share
27.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.9 GW
Total generation
-2.8 GW
Net import
111.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
223
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 23.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles stretching across a dark rolling landscape into the distance; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 5.1 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing control rooms just left of centre; hard coal 3.8 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired station with a single blocky boiler building and a chimney with faint red aviation lights, positioned between the lignite plant and the gas turbines; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip conveyors and a modest steam stack, placed among the turbines on the right; wind offshore 3.6 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a distant dark sea glimmer; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam structure with lit spillway visible at the lower right edge. The sky is completely dark, deep navy to black, with brilliant stars and a clear Milky Way visible through zero cloud cover — absolutely no twilight, no sky glow on the horizon. Spring vegetation is just visible in artificial light: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees at 10.6°C. Turbine blades show moderate rotation blur from 6.8 km/h local wind. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high 111.3 EUR/MWh price — a brooding industrial tension with warm sodium-orange light pooling around the thermal plants contrasting against cold starlight on the wind farm ridgeline. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into darkness — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.