Wind dominates overnight generation at 21.9 GW; 4.4 GW net imports cover the remaining gap to 39.1 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
21.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.7 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
87.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
30.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
146
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines along a far horizon line suggesting the North Sea; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground combined heat-and-power plant with a tall rectangular stack and woodchip storage dome, warm amber light spilling from its facility windows; natural gas 3.2 GW sits adjacent as a compact CCGT block with a single slender exhaust stack venting a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 0.9 GW appears as a small conventional power station partially in shadow with a single squat smokestack; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and low powerhouse beside a glinting stream in the middle distance. TIME: 02:00 at night — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow; a scattering of stars visible through 30% partial cloud cover; all structures illuminated only by warm sodium streetlights, red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles, and the amber glow of industrial floodlights. Spring vegetation is barely visible — bare-branching trees with the faintest green buds, cool 7°C atmosphere suggested by mist hanging low over the fields. Turbine blades show motion blur in moderate 15.5 km/h wind. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price — a thick, brooding haze drifts between the cooling towers and turbines. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark palette of Prussian blue, ivory black, raw umber, and warm ochre highlights; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layered fog; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. The scene reads as a monumental nocturnal industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.