Wind leads at 20.6 GW but coal and gas together supply 17.9 GW under an overcast, import-dependent late night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
60%
Renewable share
20.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.3 GW
Total generation
-2.3 GW
Net import
118.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
281
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 16.8 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their aviation warning lights blinking red; wind offshore 3.8 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible dark sea. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 5.8 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with two tall exhaust stacks venting thin white exhaust, gleaming under site lighting. Hard coal 4.5 GW appears behind the brown coal complex as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts visible under spotlights. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered centre-left as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest smokestack and a steaming biomass storage dome. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam in the middle distance with faint white water spilling over its face. The sky is completely dark—deep navy to black, fully overcast at 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever—it is 23:00 in May. Temperature is a cool 6°C: spring vegetation on the hillsides is fresh green but muted in darkness, with patches of fog settling in the valleys. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—low brooding clouds press down on the industrial landscape. Light sources are exclusively artificial: sodium streetlamps cast orange pools along access roads, cooling towers glow from internal furnace light, and turbine nacelle lights dot the horizon. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.