Onshore wind leads at 17.2 GW but thermal plants and 5.3 GW net imports are needed to meet overnight demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
63%
Renewable share
19.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.9 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
100.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
253
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.2 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers receding across a dark rolling plain; brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by amber furnace glow; natural gas 5.1 GW appears left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks venting thin white heat haze; hard coal 3.4 GW sits beside the gas plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-sized industrial facilities with wood-chip silos and low stacks, positioned centre-right between turbines and fossil plants; wind offshore 1.9 GW is glimpsed on the distant far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines silhouetted against the sky; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure with water glinting in foreground shadow. Time is 1 AM: the sky is completely black with scattered cold stars, absolutely no twilight or sky glow, only sodium-orange streetlights along a country road and the industrial amber glow of the coal and gas facilities casting reflections on low clouds of steam. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a brooding, dense quality to the air. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched trees with the first hints of budding leaves, dormant fields, temperature near 7°C suggesting a chill damp night. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial fire-glow and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with receding turbine rows vanishing into mist. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and rotor hubs, aluminium-clad CCGT housings, reinforced-concrete cooling tower shells with visible ribbing. No text, no labels.