Wind leads at 16.1 GW but 9.9 GW net imports needed as nighttime demand outpaces domestic generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
73%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.1 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
94.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
59.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
181
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across rolling dark hills; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by amber industrial floodlights; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of squat industrial buildings with a wood-chip storage dome and a single tall exhaust stack emitting pale vapour, lit by sodium lamps; wind offshore 3.3 GW is visible in the distant far-right background as a faint row of red aircraft-warning lights marking turbines on a dark horizon line over a barely visible sea; natural gas 3.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a low rectangular turbine hall glowing with interior fluorescent light; hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square chimney and conveyor belts beside the brown coal facility on the left; hydro 1.1 GW is represented by a small dam structure in the mid-ground valley with water cascading over a spillway, catching industrial light. The sky is completely dark, deep black-navy, no twilight, no glow on the horizon — it is 4 AM. Scattered clouds at 59% cover are faintly visible only where industrial light catches them from below, giving an oppressive low-hanging quality reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is near freezing: bare early-spring trees without full foliage, patches of frost on dark meadows. Wind visibly bends grasses and the turbine blades show motion blur. No solar panels anywhere. Artificial light sources only: amber and white sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground, red aviation lights on turbine nacelles, floodlit industrial facilities. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich deep colour palette of indigo, amber, slate grey, and warm industrial orange, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze around cooling tower plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, lattice structures, and plant equipment. No text, no labels.