Strong onshore wind leads nighttime generation but 8.4 GW net imports are needed to meet 44 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
74%
Renewable share
20.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.6 GW
Total generation
-8.4 GW
Net import
97.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
170
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the far background right as a cluster of offshore turbines silhouetted against the dark sea horizon; biomass 4.5 GW occupies the centre-right as a cluster of industrial biomass plants with lit furnace glow behind tall stacks emitting thin pale exhaust; brown coal 3.9 GW fills the left quarter with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 3.9 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and warm amber-lit turbine halls; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller coal plant beside the brown coal facility with a single squat chimney and conveyor belt visible; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam with spillway in the lower-left foreground, water faintly reflecting facility lights. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow — it is 23:00 at night — a deep navy-to-black firmament with scattered stars visible through gaps, a clear sky with zero cloud cover. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price: a brooding, tense stillness over the industrial panorama. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and leafing trees — is barely visible in the foreground under sodium streetlight spillover. Temperature is mild at 13°C, no frost. All facilities are lit by warm artificial lighting — sodium lamps casting orange pools, blue-white LED security lights, glowing control-room windows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep blues, and warm amber industrial glows — visible brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, biomass furnace architecture. The scene reads as a masterwork nocturnal industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.