Wind leads at 11 GW but 17.1 GW net imports needed as solar fades and evening demand peaks.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 2%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.5 GW
Solar
26.8 GW
Total generation
-17.1 GW
Net import
173.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 67.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1
Wild Ride
Image prompt
Wind onshore 7.4 GW dominates the right third of the canvas as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind, nacelles catching faint artificial glow. Wind offshore 3.6 GW appears in the far right background as a distant cluster of offshore turbines silhouetted against a deep navy horizon line over the sea. Biomass 4.5 GW occupies the centre-right as a cluster of mid-sized industrial plants with wood-chip conveyor belts and modest stacks emitting pale steam, warmly lit by sodium lamps. Brown coal 3.9 GW fills the centre-left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 3.7 GW sits to the left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a heat recovery unit, its clean metallic surfaces gleaming under facility lighting. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller coal plant to the far left with a single shorter cooling tower and a conveyor gantry. Hydro 1.9 GW is visible as a concrete dam structure in the left background with water cascading and small spotlights on the spillway. Solar 0.5 GW is represented by a tiny, unlit rooftop array on a farmhouse, barely visible in the darkness. The sky is completely black to deep navy — it is 20:00 in May, fully dark, no twilight glow, no sky gradient, stars faintly visible. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a thick industrial haze hangs low, trapping the orange sodium-light glow from below, giving the air a brooding, sulfurous quality. The landscape is a gently rolling central German plain with lush late-spring vegetation — fresh green grass and leafy deciduous trees just visible in the artificial light, consistent with 20.6°C warmth. The foreground shows a quiet country road with a single car's headlights and a lit farmhouse window. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines on steel pylons cross the scene, symbolizing the heavy import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich deep blues, warm oranges and ambers, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Meticulous engineering detail on all energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.