Lignite, gas, and hard coal dominate overnight generation as low wind and zero solar drive 16.5 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 32%
32%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.4 GW
Total generation
16.5 GW
Net import
147.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 16 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
473
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; hard coal 4.0 GW appears left of centre as a pair of tall chimneys with red aviation lights and coal conveyor belts faintly illuminated; natural gas 6.2 GW fills the centre-right as two compact CCGT blocks with slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze, their turbine halls glowing with interior fluorescent light; biomass 3.7 GW sits in the mid-ground as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a single squat stack and a steaming dome, warmly lit; onshore wind 3.3 GW appears as a scattered line of five three-blade turbines on a ridge in the right background, their nacelle lights blinking red, rotors turning slowly; hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the far right with water cascading under a single floodlight; offshore wind 0.4 GW is a tiny distant silhouette of a single turbine on the far horizon. The sky is completely black and starless under 100% cloud cover, no moon, no twilight — a deep oppressive overcast summer night at 3 AM. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, almost suffocating, with mist drifting low across flat central German terrain — fields of mature green summer wheat barely visible in the darkness. Sodium streetlights along a road cast orange pools. High-voltage transmission towers march across the middle distance carrying thick cables, symbolising the heavy import flows. The entire palette is dominated by deep navy-blacks, furnace oranges, and industrial whites. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth and haze — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower curve, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.