Brown coal and hard coal dominate overnight generation as low wind and zero solar force 14.9 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 32%
41%
Renewable share
6.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.4 GW
Total generation
14.9 GW
Net import
109.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
431
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black sky; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre-left as a coal-fired plant with tall rectangular stacks and red aviation warning lights blinking; wind onshore 5.3 GW occupies the centre as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a distant ridge, their nacelle lights blinking white; natural gas 3.3 GW sits centre-right as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack glowing faintly from internal combustion light; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and a squat smokestack emitting thin pale vapour; hydro 1.4 GW is rendered far right as a concrete dam spillway with sodium-yellow floodlights illuminating cascading water; wind offshore 0.9 GW is a cluster of distant turbines on the far horizon barely visible against the darkness. The sky is completely black with full 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever, only a deep oppressive blanket of warm humid cloud reflecting faint amber-orange industrial light from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and stifling, conveying the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green visible only under artificial light — sodium streetlamps cast pools of orange along an access road in the foreground. The warm 22.4 °C night is suggested by slight haze and humid air softening distant lights. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric depth receding into industrial haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.