Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 25%
46%
Renewable share
14.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.4 GW
Total generation
-7.0 GW
Net import
154.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
58% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
380
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Photograph a German industrial landscape at 7 PM in early March twilight, temperature 12°C with moderate 58% cloud cover creating a dusky grey-blue sky with no direct sunlight. In the foreground and middle distance, dominate the frame with massive lignite power infrastructure: at least four enormous hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes, accompanied by tall rectangular smokestacks emitting visible emissions, representing the 11.3 GW brown coal output; add smaller hard coal plant cooling towers and a compact gas combined-cycle facility with a single stack for the additional 5.3 GW hard coal and 7.5 GW gas. Across the rolling countryside, scatter approximately twelve onshore wind turbines with three-blade rotors turning at moderate speed in the 4.2 km/h breeze, white nacelles visible but not dominating the scene, representing the 12.9 GW onshore wind; no solar panels are visible or lit as solar generation is zero in this evening hour. The atmosphere should feel compressed and heavy with the 154.1 EUR/MWh price tension, industrial haze mixing with low cloud, early spring vegetation showing bare trees and brown-green fields, the composition dense with infrastructure filling the skyline to convey the supply strain and high residual load of 37.2 GW.