Wind and brown coal dominate a summer night grid running 4.7 GW of net imports under heavy cloud cover.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 26%
60%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
4.7 GW
Net import
134.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
304
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.5 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes into the darkness; wind onshore 12.0 GW spans the centre and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 4.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines visible on the far-right horizon line, tiny red dots in a row; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a medium industrial facility with a timber-yard and a single tall stack with a faint orange glow, placed in the centre-left middle ground; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a coal-fired plant with a pair of tall chimneys and conveyor belts, positioned behind the biomass plant; natural gas 2.5 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single bright exhaust stack, nestled between the coal and biomass facilities; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir gleaming faintly in the lower-right foreground. TIME: 04:00 at night — the sky is completely black with 99% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever; the only illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, the industrial flood-lighting of the power stations, the red blinking lights on the turbine nacelles, and faint amber glows from facility windows. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, oppressive — steam from the cooling towers merges with low-hanging clouds, creating a dense, pressing canopy. Summer vegetation is lush but rendered in dark silhouette. The landscape is a broad German lowland with gentle terrain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep navy, charcoal grey, warm sodium amber, and ghostly cooling-tower white; visible, expressive brushwork with atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and industrial structure; the painting conveys sublime industrial grandeur under a starless summer night. No text, no labels.