Wind leads at 19.1 GW but 6.3 GW net imports and coal baseload are needed to meet overnight demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
67%
Renewable share
19.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
6.3 GW
Net import
147.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 8 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
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick pale steam plumes rising into blackness; hard coal 3.0 GW appears just left of centre as a large power station with conveyor belts and a single tall smokestack glowing faintly orange; natural gas 2.7 GW sits at centre as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by harsh sodium lamps; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with woodchip storage and a modest chimney, warmly lit; hydro 1.2 GW is rendered as a small dam with a luminous spillway at lower right; wind onshore 14.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the deep background, their red aviation lights blinking; wind offshore 4.3 GW is suggested by a line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sliver of sea. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black with 100% cloud cover — no moon, no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever, only a deep oppressive charcoal-black overcast pressing down. All illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium-orange streetlights along access roads, blue-white LED floods on plant perimeters, glowing control-room windows, and the red pulse of turbine beacons. The atmosphere feels heavy and warm for a July night, summer foliage on trees rendered as dense dark masses. Lush green grass is barely visible under lamplight. The elevated price is conveyed by a brooding, dense, oppressive atmosphere — the cloud ceiling feels low and heavy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and industrial detail. No text, no labels.