Strong onshore wind drives 80% renewables at evening peak while brown coal and gas provide thermal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 3%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
42.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.8 GW
Solar
61.8 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
108.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.0°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
139
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 37.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching deep into the darkness, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as distant turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and single smokestack glowing warmly in the left-center; natural gas 3.5 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller coal plant with a rectangular cooling tower behind the gas facility; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam with spillway in the center-right middle distance; solar 1.8 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels barely visible in the gloom, reflecting no sunlight. TIME: 20:00 in July, full night darkness — sky is deep navy-black, completely overcast with no stars, no twilight glow remaining. All facilities illuminated only by artificial sodium-vapor streetlights casting harsh orange pools, and industrial floodlights. Lush green summer vegetation — deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass bending strongly in the wind. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a thick humid ceiling of cloud pressing down, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of indigo, umber, orange and steel grey, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with reinforcing ribs, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat haze. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime — a masterwork painting of nocturnal energy infrastructure under brooding summer overcast. No text, no labels.