Strong onshore wind dominates overnight generation while brown coal and gas cover residual load at an elevated price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
23.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.8 GW
Total generation
-0.2 GW
Net import
96.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central-German hills, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 4.3 GW appears left-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin white vapour; hard coal 3.8 GW sits just behind the gas plant as a large boiler house with a single wide chimney and conveyor belts; biomass 4.2 GW is a medium-sized facility with a cylindrical silo and woodchip pile glowing under floodlights near the centre; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a spillway in the far middle distance; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by faint red aviation lights on the far-right horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with no twilight, no sky glow, zero clouds, and scattered stars visible above the steam plumes. The landscape is early spring — bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, dry brown grass, patches of green. Temperature is cool, around 8°C, so a thin ground mist clings to low areas between the turbine bases. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — an almost brooding quality suggesting high electricity prices. Sodium-orange streetlights line a road winding through the scene. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep blues, warm oranges, and cool greys; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with sfumato haze around distant cooling towers; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium turbine housings, and industrial structures. No text, no labels.