Gas, brown coal, wind, and biomass anchor a 24.9 GW domestic supply requiring 21.1 GW net imports at evening peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 2%
Biomass 18%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
56%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
24.9 GW
Total generation
-21.1 GW
Net import
195.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.8°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 34.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
289
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
Wild Ride
Image prompt
Wind onshore 5.9 GW appears as a broad field of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across the right quarter of the scene, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre-right as a cluster of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin pale plumes. Brown coal 4.7 GW dominates the centre-left with massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick columns of white steam into the dark sky. Biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a squat smokestack and adjacent timber-pile storage to the left of the cooling towers. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway visible at the far left, water gleaming faintly under artificial light. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested far in the background as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant dark sea horizon. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller power station with a single tall brick chimney near the brown coal complex. Solar 0.4 GW is absent from the scene — no panels visible. The sky is completely dark, 20:00 nighttime in May, deep navy-to-black overcast with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever. Sodium-orange streetlights line an industrial road in the foreground; lit windows glow warm yellow from facility control buildings. The warm 23.8°C late-spring atmosphere is conveyed through lush green deciduous foliage on nearby trees, barely visible under artificial illumination. The overall mood is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme 195.4 EUR/MWh price — the cloud ceiling feels low, pressing down on the industrial landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, umber, and warm sodium-lamp orange, with visible impasto brushwork and atmospheric depth. Each technology is rendered with meticulous engineering detail: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with realistic condensation plumes lit from below by facility lights. The scene feels monumental, a nocturnal industrial sublime. No text, no labels.