Onshore wind leads at 8.2 GW but 8.6 GW net imports are needed as solar is absent and demand outpaces domestic supply.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 20%
57%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
23.7 GW
Total generation
-8.6 GW
Net import
106.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
70% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 8.2 GW dominates the right third of the scene as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on a dark rolling plain, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the blackness; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 4.2 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer against the dark sky; biomass 4.0 GW sits centre-right as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a glowing combustion grate visible through open bay doors and a modest smokestack; hydro 1.3 GW is depicted as a small illuminated dam spillway in the middle distance; hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a single coal-fired stack with a conveyor belt silhouette far left. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon, heavy 70% cloud cover blotting out stars—an oppressive, dense atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The only light sources are artificial: orange-yellow sodium streetlights along a road, the industrial glow of the coal and gas plants, and the rhythmic red blink of the turbine nacelles. Spring vegetation—fresh green grass and leafy birch trees—is barely visible in the peripheral glow. The landscape is flat northern German lowland extending to a featureless dark horizon. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, sombre colour palette of deep indigo, burnt sienna, and amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with coal steam dissolving into the overcast void; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and gas-plant piping. No text, no labels.