Wind and thermal plants share generation while 14.5 GW of net imports fill a nighttime supply gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
60%
Renewable share
10.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.0 GW
Total generation
-14.5 GW
Net import
140.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 9.2 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers scattered across rolling green hills, their rotors turning slowly; brown coal 4.7 GW dominates the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 4.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, its metal facades glowing under floodlights; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall chimney and stacked woodchip storage, warmly lit; hydro 1.5 GW is represented by a modest dam structure with spillway visible in the centre-right middle distance, floodlit; hard coal 1.2 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station with a single smokestack beside the brown coal complex; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea inlet. TIME: 22:00 at night — the sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever; the only illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting orange pools along a road in the foreground, industrial floodlights on the power stations, and faint red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and humid — reflecting the high 140 EUR/MWh price — with low cloud pressing down on the steam plumes, diffusing the industrial light into a murky orange-grey haze. Vegetation is lush mid-spring green, visible only where lit by artificial light. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C; no frost, gentle air. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, burnt sienna, and amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze receding into blackness; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust stack, and transmission pylon; the scene evokes a brooding nocturnal industrial sublime, like a Caspar David Friedrich ruin replaced by the cathedral-scale geometry of modern energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.