High imports (24.4 GW) needed as moderate wind and thermal generation cover only half of 48.7 GW evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 2%
Biomass 19%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.5 GW
Solar
24.3 GW
Total generation
-24.4 GW
Net import
195.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 38.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
277
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
Records
#3
Wild Ride
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Wind onshore 6.8 GW dominates the right third of the scene as a broad ridgeline populated with dozens of three-blade wind turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, their rotors turning at moderate speed in the night breeze. Biomass 4.6 GW appears in the centre-right as a cluster of mid-sized industrial plants with brick-red facades, illuminated windows, and low chimneys releasing thin pale steam. Natural gas 4.5 GW fills the centre as two compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks venting faint heat shimmer, their blocky turbine halls lit by sodium-orange security lighting. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left portion as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with dense white steam plumes rising into blackness, flanked by conveyor belts and ash-coloured open-pit terraces. Hard coal 1.2 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station to the far left with a single rectangular stack and red aviation warning lights. Hydro 1.3 GW is visible as a concrete dam and spillway in the middle distance, floodlit from below. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is hinted at on the far-right horizon as tiny blinking red nacelle lights beyond a dark coastal silhouette. Solar 0.5 GW: a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline panels on a foreground rooftop, dark and dormant, reflecting only artificial light. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no moon — a thick 100% overcast erasing all stars, creating a heavy oppressive ceiling that presses down on the scene, echoing the 195.4 EUR/MWh price tension. The only illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting amber pools along an access road, the industrial facilities' own floodlights, and glowing control-room windows. Lush late-spring vegetation — full green deciduous canopies, tall grass — is faintly visible in the lamplight, consistent with 22.6°C warmth. Foreground: a paved road with wet sheen, a few parked utility vehicles. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, amber, ochre, and coal-grey — visible impasto brushwork giving texture to steam and sky — atmospheric depth with industrial structures receding into haze — meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack — monumental yet melancholic grandeur. No text, no labels.