Onshore wind leads at 15.7 GW but thermal plants and 6.3 GW net imports are needed to meet overnight demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
62%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.4 GW
Total generation
-6.3 GW
Net import
98.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
263
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers stretching across a dark rolling plain, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by amber industrial lights; natural gas 5.3 GW fills the left-centre as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks venting thin grey heat shimmer, surrounded by piping and lit by sodium floodlights; hard coal 3.4 GW appears just right of centre as a single large coal plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and a single tapered chimney trailing a faint smoke plume, windows glowing orange; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a domed digester and a modest stack, warmly lit; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam and powerhouse in a valley in the far mid-ground, with floodlit spillway; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a distant line of tiny turbines on a dark horizon beyond a faintly reflective sea inlet. The sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon glow — it is 2 AM; stars are visible in a perfectly clear sky with zero cloud cover. The April temperature is near freezing, so a thin frost coats the foreground grass and bare hedgerows that are just beginning to bud. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the high electricity price — a dense, brooding stillness hangs over the scene. All facilities are lit only by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps along access roads, cool-white LED floodlights on turbine bases and plant perimeters, warm interior glow from control rooms. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes — with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, chiaroscuro contrast between industrial glow and surrounding darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.