Wind dominates nighttime generation at 20.9 GW; coal and gas fill the thermal baseload gap with 1.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
20.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.1 GW
Total generation
-1.7 GW
Net import
93.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling dark farmland into the far distance; wind offshore 3.4 GW appears on the far right horizon as a faint cluster of lit offshore turbines standing in a black sea; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a large lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.0 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a cluster of medium-scale biomass CHP facilities with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts carrying wood chips, and modest exhaust stacks with thin white vapour; natural gas 3.0 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery steam generator, its metallic surfaces reflecting amber facility lighting; hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller conventional plant behind the gas facility with a square chimney and a coal conveyor gantry; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a distant dam structure on a hillside in the deep background, with a faint spillway catching facility light. The sky is completely dark — a deep black-navy vault with no twilight, no sky glow, no moon — it is 3 AM in early May. Stars are faintly visible between drifting wisps of residual steam. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price: a humid, dense quality to the air with halos around every sodium streetlight. Ground-level vegetation is early-spring green grass barely visible in the darkness, with scattered bare-branched trees budding faintly. The overall tone is sombre industrial nocturne. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric perspective with luminous industrial glows against profound darkness — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT stack, and conveyor mechanism is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.