Strong overnight wind at 18.9 GW leads generation, but 7 GW net imports are needed to meet 38.8 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.8 GW
Total generation
-6.9 GW
Net import
90.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.9°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers arrayed across rolling central German hills, rotors visibly spinning; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on the horizon above a dark North Sea sliver; biomass 4.2 GW occupies the centre-left as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a short stack emitting pale steam; brown coal 3.5 GW sits at the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white plumes rising into the night; natural gas 3.2 GW is rendered just left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and faint orange flame; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure in a valley notch at far left; hard coal 0.9 GW appears as a single smaller stack beside the lignite towers with a thin grey plume. TIME: 03:00 at night — the sky is completely black with scattered cold stars visible through perfectly clear skies (0% cloud cover); no twilight, no horizon glow, only sodium-orange streetlights lining a country road and warm industrial lighting on the power stations. Temperature is near 6°C; early spring landscape with bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud and frost on pasture grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, reflecting the elevated 90.5 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, tense stillness hangs over the land. High-voltage transmission pylons stride across the middle ground, cables catching faint industrial light, symbolising the import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich, deep colour palette of Prussian blue, ivory black, and warm sodium orange; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with misty steam plumes dissolving into the starry night; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.