Strong nighttime wind dominates but tight margins and gas-plus-coal dispatch drive prices to 135 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
24.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.3 GW
Total generation
6.0 GW
Net import
135.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
92.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
211
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly glimmering sea. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 5.2 GW sits left-of-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat haze, their turbine halls glowing warmly through large windows. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a squat smokestack and conveyor belts, illuminated by floodlights. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower to the far left, partially in shadow. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in a valley at centre-left, water faintly catching reflected light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 92% cloud cover blocking all stars, no twilight glow whatsoever — a true 11 PM summer night. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low humid clouds press down on the industrial landscape, faintly catching the orange sodium glow from below. Temperature is a warm 18.7°C; vegetation is lush midsummer green barely visible in the darkness, with broad-leafed trees in full canopy. Light wind at ground level gently sways grasses. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, and warm orange; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground industry and distant turbines. Engineering details are meticulous: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium catwalks on cooling towers, riveted steel stacks. No text, no labels.