Wind leads at 25 GW but 8.1 GW net imports needed as post-sunset thermal and demand pressures lift prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
66%
Renewable share
25.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
-8.1 GW
Net import
116.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91.0% / 0.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the far background right as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon; natural gas 7.2 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall single exhaust stacks venting pale heat plumes, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; brown coal 5.4 GW fills the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam clouds, illuminated from below by amber facility lights; hard coal 3.2 GW sits just left of centre as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and a single smokestack; biomass 4.7 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-clad industrial building with a low cylindrical silo and a modest plume; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and spillway glimpsed in a valley between the wind turbines. Time is 21:00 in late April—the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight whatsoever, heavy 91% overcast clouds faintly catching the glow of industrial lights from below. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees rendered in dark tones under artificial light. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price—low clouds press down on the landscape, trapping steam and haze. Temperature is mild at 12.7°C, a damp spring night. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but depicting an industrial energy landscape: rich dark colour palette of navy, amber, charcoal, and ivory; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of mist and steam; meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry, and coal plant boiler structures. No text, no labels.