Onshore wind leads at 8.8 GW, but 11 GW net imports are needed as thermal plants and biomass fill a nighttime supply gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
8.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
24.3 GW
Total generation
-11.0 GW
Net import
108.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
66% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 8.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as a long ridge of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 4.2 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT plant blocks with slender single exhaust stacks venting thin white vapour; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall rectangular boiler building and a conveyor belt feeding wood chips, lit by warm floodlights; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam structure in the centre-right middle distance with water glinting under artificial light; hard coal 1.2 GW sits behind the brown coal plant as a smaller stack with a visible coal bunker; offshore wind 0.1 GW is a single faint turbine silhouette on the far horizon. Time is 03:00 — completely dark, deep navy-to-black sky, no twilight, no sky glow, 66% cloud cover shown as invisible clouds blotting out most stars but a few clusters visible through gaps. A mild spring night at 12.6°C — fresh green foliage on deciduous trees is barely visible in the facility floodlights, damp grass gleams faintly. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a low industrial haze hangs across the scene, the cooling tower steam merges into the overcast, sodium streetlights cast amber cones along a road in the foreground. A high-voltage transmission line stretches from left to right, symbolising the import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, burnt umber, and amber-orange, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower reinforced-concrete ribs, CCGT exhaust geometry. The mood is brooding, industrial, nocturnal. No text, no labels.