Wind (16.5 GW) and brown coal (6.1 GW) anchor overnight generation as Germany imports 6.9 GW to meet demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 17%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 19%
66%
Renewable share
16.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.6 GW
Total generation
6.9 GW
Net import
121.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
237
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and warm sodium-lit piping in the left-centre; hard coal 1.2 GW stands as a single smaller coal plant with a squat chimney and conveyor belts behind the gas facility; wind onshore 10.9 GW spans the centre and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines rising from a dark sea horizon; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single stack emitting thin exhaust, positioned centre-left; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far left background. The time is 2 AM: the sky is completely black with a heavy 100% overcast ceiling — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. All structures are lit only by artificial light: orange sodium lamps along roads and plant perimeters, bluish-white LED floodlights on turbine bases, warm glowing windows in control buildings. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds press down close to the cooling tower plumes, merging with steam in an ominous ceiling. Summer vegetation — full leafy trees, tall grass — is barely visible in the peripheral glow of industrial lighting. The landscape is central German rolling terrain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette dominated by deep navy, charcoal, warm amber from industrial lights, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with condensation plumes, CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.