Brown coal and imports dominate Germany's nighttime grid as wind stays weak and solar is absent.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 8%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 33%
34%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.1 GW
Total generation
17.3 GW
Net import
143.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
472
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes into the black sky; hard coal 4.0 GW appears left-of-centre as a smaller coal plant with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.8 GW sits right-of-centre as a cluster of industrial wood-chip boiler buildings with modest chimneys trailing grey smoke; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete dam with dark spillway water visible in reflected light at lower right; wind onshore 2.5 GW and offshore 0.8 GW are rendered as a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines along the far-right horizon, blades turning lazily in light breeze, aviation warning lights blinking red. Time is 01:00 — fully dark summer night, deep black sky with faint stars visible through a nearly cloudless atmosphere, no twilight or sky glow whatsoever. All structures are illuminated only by sodium-orange industrial floodlights, glowing furnace windows casting amber reflections on nearby surfaces, and red obstruction lights on stacks and turbines. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying high electricity cost — a faint industrial haze hangs at ground level, caught in the artificial light. Summer vegetation: dark silhouettes of lush deciduous trees and tall grass along the foreground. Temperature is mild at 16.6°C, no frost, a gentle warmth in the air. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep navy, amber, and ochre, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial structures receding into darkness. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice-and-tubular towers, lignite cooling towers with correct hyperbolic geometry, CCGT stacks with heat-recovery housings. The painting evokes a sublime industrial nocturne — monumental, sombre, technically precise. No text, no labels, no human figures.