Onshore wind leads at 18.8 GW but brown coal and gas fill the thermal gap as Germany imports 5 GW overnight.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
62%
Renewable share
19.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.9 GW
Total generation
-5.0 GW
Net import
100.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 18.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers arrayed across rolling central-German farmland, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 4.6 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a faint heat shimmer; hard coal 3.7 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller facility with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor structure; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a squat rectangular boiler building and a modest chimney trailing pale smoke; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with foaming white water in the lower foreground; wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant flat horizon line. The sky is completely black, a deep-navy pre-dawn April night at 04:00 with no twilight, no sky glow—only stars faintly visible through perfectly clear zero-percent cloud cover. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a faint industrial haze clings to the ground. Temperature near 6°C means bare early-spring fields, leafless hedgerows, patches of frost glinting under amber streetlights along a country road. Sodium-orange and cool-white industrial lighting illuminates each power facility from within, casting long reflections on wet ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.