Strong wind leads at 22.5 GW but a 16 GW net import covers evening peak demand under clear skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
74%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.1 GW
Solar
44.1 GW
Total generation
-16.0 GW
Net import
117.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 188.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
184
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green spring hills, rotors visibly turning in steady wind; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint coastal silhouette. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers venting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the breeze. Biomass 4.5 GW sits left of centre as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rectangular stack and a large wood-chip storage yard. Solar 4.1 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle south-facing slope in the centre-left middle ground, catching the last low amber rays. Natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller steam plume, positioned centre-right behind a row of turbines. Hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower at the far left edge. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the distant centre-left background. The sky is a late-April dusk at 19:00 in central Germany: the sun has just touched the western horizon, casting a deep orange-red glow along the lower quarter of the sky, transitioning through salmon and lavender into a darkening steel-blue zenith — no full daylight remains. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, reflecting the high electricity price — a dense, warm haze hangs over the industrial structures. Spring vegetation is lush mid-green, wildflowers dot the foreground meadow, temperature around 15°C conveyed by light jackets on two tiny figures walking a path. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel frame is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.