Wind leads at 24 GW but brown coal at 10.6 GW and gas at 5.9 GW fill the nighttime gap, with 5.3 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 22%
61%
Renewable share
24.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
5.3 GW
Net import
119.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
279
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white-grey steam plumes into the black sky, with conveyor belts and open-pit mine edges faintly lit by sodium lamps; natural gas 5.9 GW fills the left-centre as compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing orange flare tips; hard coal 2.5 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and a coal pile beside it, illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short chimneys emitting thin wispy exhaust, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with spillway at the far centre-left, water gleaming under a single arc lamp. TIME: 22:00 — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, no moon visible, dense 98% overcast erasing all stars. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price — low thick clouds press down, lit from below by the orange-sodium glow of industrial facilities. Temperature 8.9°C mild early spring: bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, damp green grass, patches of mist in low valleys. Wind is light at ground level (4.3 km/h) so ground-level fog lingers, but turbine rotors high above still turn from stronger winds aloft. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark colour palette of deep indigo, coal-black, warm sodium-orange, and steam-white; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. The scene evokes a brooding Caspar David Friedrich landscape reimagined for the industrial energy age. No text, no labels.