Wind leads generation at 14.8 GW but 22.6 GW net imports are needed as evening demand peaks at 58.2 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 14%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
14.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.9 GW
Solar
35.6 GW
Total generation
-22.6 GW
Net import
139.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 190.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
191
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green April hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.7 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon line above a distant grey sea. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Solar 4.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last low-angle orange light. Biomass 4.5 GW sits behind the solar field as a compact wood-clad plant with a short smokestack and stored timber piles. Natural gas 3.8 GW appears at the left-centre as a modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and slim vapour trail. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller industrial block with a dark smokestack near the brown coal plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir in a valley to the far left. The sky is late dusk at 19:00 in late April in central Germany — a vivid orange-red band glows along the lower western horizon, rapidly fading upward into deep indigo and early dark blue overhead, with zero clouds and a perfectly clear atmosphere. The first evening stars are faintly emerging. Fresh green spring vegetation covers the rolling terrain — beech and oak trees in new leaf, wildflower meadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the high electricity price — a subtle amber-brown haze hangs near the industrial structures. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.