Strong wind and lignite anchor nighttime generation, but 10.8 GW net imports are needed to meet 46.9 GW demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
70%
Renewable share
19.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
10.9 GW
Net import
148.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.3°C / 19 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
223
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors spinning briskly in steady wind; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a cluster of mid-sized industrial facilities with short chimneys and wood-chip conveyors in the left-centre, warmly lit windows glowing; wind offshore 3.1 GW is suggested on the far right horizon as a faint row of turbine silhouettes with red aviation warning lights blinking above a distant dark sea; natural gas 2.6 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.7 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower near the lignite station; hydro 1.0 GW is a small illuminated dam structure in the foreground valley. The scene is set at 22:00 in full night — the sky is completely black and overcast with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. All structures are lit only by artificial light: orange-yellow sodium streetlamps along access roads, floodlights on industrial facades, red blinking warning lights on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a thick humid haze diffuses the artificial lights into smeared haloes. Summer vegetation is lush but rendered in deep shadow, warm 20°C air suggested by leafy deciduous trees barely visible in lamplight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower curvature with condensation plumes, aluminium-clad gas turbine exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.