Wind leads at 21.4 GW with coal and gas filling the thermal base; modest net imports cover the 1.7 GW gap at elevated nighttime prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.8 GW
Total generation
-1.7 GW
Net import
103.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
160
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles receding across dark rolling hills; wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly gleaming sea; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; biomass 4.1 GW sits left-centre as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rectangular stack and woody fuel storage visible under harsh white work-lights; natural gas 3.1 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat-shimmer plume; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller grate-fired plant barely visible behind the gas facility, one narrow chimney with a thin wisp of smoke; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the centre middle-ground, water catching faint reflected light. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow — a deep-navy-to-black vault with scattered cold stars and no moon, emphasising the 1 AM hour. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a low haze clings to the valley floor, tinged amber by sodium streetlamps of a small town in the far distance. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light. Ground-level air appears still despite the spinning turbine blades above. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology: lattice sub-structures on turbine towers, aluminium cladding on nacelles, reinforced-concrete texture on cooling towers, riveted steel on industrial stacks. No text, no labels.