Strong overnight wind meets persistent thermal baseload and 8.8 GW net imports under elevated midnight prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
19.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.0 GW
Total generation
8.8 GW
Net import
125.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
88.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
199
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling hills into the deep background, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps of an industrial complex. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and a modest smokestack emitting pale exhaust, positioned left of center, warmly lit by facility lighting. Wind offshore 3.6 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a faint row of red-blinking aviation warning lights atop offshore turbine towers above a dark sea sliver. Natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller rectangular building, positioned center-left, with sharp white industrial floodlighting. Hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor infrastructure, adjacent to the brown coal complex on the left, with dim orange lighting. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in a valley in the mid-ground with faint spillway illumination. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no glow on the horizon — a deep navy-to-black summer midnight sky at 00:00, overcast at 88% cloud cover so no stars are visible, only a faint diffuse suggestion of cloud texture. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting the high 125 EUR/MWh price — humid summer air with haze around the cooling tower plumes. Temperature is mild at 15.5°C so vegetation is lush midsummer green, visible only where artificial light spills onto grass and trees. The entire scene is lit exclusively by artificial sources: sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, white industrial floodlights at the power plants, red aviation lights on turbine nacelles blinking in sequence across the hills. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the artificial lights and the enveloping darkness, meticulous engineering detail on all energy infrastructure, the mood of sublime industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.