Wind and brown coal dominate a tight nighttime grid requiring 6.4 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
53%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.5 GW
Total generation
6.4 GW
Net import
127.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
26.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
326
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors visibly spinning in brisk wind; brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and small vapour trails, illuminated by facility floodlights; hard coal 3.6 GW sits beside them as a smaller coal plant with a single cooling tower and conveyor belt infrastructure glowing under industrial lighting; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip fired plant with a squat chimney and warm interior glow visible through open bay doors; wind offshore 1.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon line suggesting a coast; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure in a valley at lower right with water faintly reflecting artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight, no moon glow — a true 2 AM summer darkness, scattered stars visible through 26% cloud cover as thin wispy clouds. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a subtle haze hangs over the industrial foreground. Warm summer vegetation — lush dark green deciduous trees and tall grass — frames the foreground, barely visible in the darkness, leaves stirring in moderate wind. Sodium-orange streetlights line a small road in the mid-ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark colour palette of deep blues, blacks, ambers, and warm industrial oranges, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and rotor hubs, aluminium-clad CCGT housings, lignite cooling tower parabolic concrete shells. The scene evokes a masterwork nocturnal industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.