Strong nighttime wind leads generation but 11 GW net imports are needed as thermal plants and biomass fill the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
20.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.4 GW
Total generation
11.0 GW
Net import
149.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
226
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a tall smokestack and woodchip storage silos in the left-centre middle ground, warmly lit by facility floodlights. Wind offshore 3.8 GW is visible on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea, their red aviation warning lights blinking. Hard coal 3.0 GW is rendered as a coal-fired power station with conveyor belts and a single large stack beside the cooling towers, slightly to the left of centre. Natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller cooling unit, positioned centre-left, its clean metallic surfaces catching industrial lighting. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam and spillway in the lower-left foreground. Time is 22:00 on a July night: the sky is completely black with bright stars visible through a perfectly clear atmosphere — zero cloud cover, no twilight glow, no sky brightening whatsoever. The landscape is entirely dark except for artificial light — sodium-orange streetlamps along a small road in the foreground, warm glowing windows of a village nestled among the turbine hills, industrial floodlights on the thermal plants. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price — a subtle haze hangs around the cooling towers and the air feels dense and warm for a summer night. Lush green summer vegetation on the hills is barely visible in the artificial light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric chiaroscuro, dramatic contrast between the warm industrial glow and the vast dark sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.