Strong onshore wind leads overnight generation, but thermal baseload and net imports are needed to meet 43.9 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 49%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
64%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.2 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
98.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
250
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 19.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German farmland; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by amber industrial sodium lights; natural gas 4.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer just left of centre; hard coal 3.5 GW is rendered as a smaller conventional power station with a tall square chimney and conveyor belts beside a coal pile, positioned between the lignite plant and the gas units; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized CHP facility with a wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the centre-right; hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a small run-of-river dam along a dark reflective stream in the near foreground; offshore wind 0.9 GW is barely suggested as a faint row of tiny turbine silhouettes on the distant horizon. TIME: 03:00 at night — the sky is completely black with scattered stars visible through perfectly clear skies with zero cloud cover, no twilight glow whatsoever, deep navy-black overhead. All illumination comes from artificial sources: orange sodium vapor streetlights along a country road, glowing windows of control buildings, red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks, white floodlights on the industrial facilities. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price — a slight industrial haze hugs the ground near the thermal plants. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched trees just beginning to bud, short pale-green grass, temperature near freezing suggested by a thin ground mist in low areas. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich deep color, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, and meticulous technical accuracy on all engineering details — turbine blade profiles, cooling tower parabolic curves, steel lattice structures, aluminium panel frames. The scene reads as a monumental industrial nocturne, a masterwork painting of the modern energy landscape. No text, no labels.