Wind and brown coal dominate overnight generation as net imports cover a 4.6 GW domestic shortfall under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
52%
Renewable share
14.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.9 GW
Total generation
-4.6 GW
Net import
113.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
337
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 10.8 GW and offshore 3.2 GW together span the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, some on distant hills, others rising from a dark North Sea horizon. Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights. Natural gas 5.9 GW occupies the centre-left as compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a pair of striped chimneys trailing grey smoke. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor belt and a short stack, warmly lit from within. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway visible in a valley in the middle distance. The time is 02:00 at night: the sky is completely black with no twilight, no sky glow, a thick 100% overcast blanket blocking all stars, creating a heavy oppressive ceiling reflecting the high electricity price. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, the industrial glow of the power stations, and scattered warning lights on turbine nacelles blinking red. The landscape is late-spring central German rolling terrain, fresh green deciduous foliage barely visible in the darkness, mild 12.5°C air producing faint ground-level mist around the cooling tower bases. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between orange industrial light and the inky black sky, atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground and distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine rotor, cooling tower shell, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.