Onshore wind leads at 17.4 GW but 6.9 GW net imports are needed as thermal plants fill the nighttime gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
62%
Renewable share
18.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.0 GW
Total generation
-6.9 GW
Net import
98.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, red aviation warning lights blinking, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind, spread across rolling central-German hills. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Natural gas 4.3 GW appears left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a brightly lit turbine hall. Hard coal 3.5 GW sits behind it as a large boiler house with a single tall chimney trailing a thin grey plume, illuminated by floodlights. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a squat stack and a wood-chip storage dome, warmly lit. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the mid-ground valley, floodlit. Offshore wind 0.9 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on a far horizon line barely visible. The time is 03:00 — the sky is completely black with brilliant stars and a clear Milky Way, zero cloud cover, no twilight, no sky glow. The landscape is early spring: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, pale green grass, patches of dark earth. Temperature is a cool 6.5 °C, suggested by faint ground mist in the valleys. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price — a dense, almost tangible stillness pressing down. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep blues, warm sodium oranges, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth and perspective. Every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: lattice tower foundations, three-blade rotor geometry, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.