Strong overnight wind drives 31.4 GW and enables 4.3 GW net exports under full cloud cover with no solar.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
31.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.7 GW
Total generation
+4.3 GW
Net export
71.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 10 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
149
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling Central German hills from the centre to the far right, rotors spinning steadily; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the distant background right as a cluster of taller offshore turbines silhouetted against the dark horizon; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange floodlights; biomass 3.8 GW sits centre-left as a wood-chip-fed CHP facility with a compact stack and a warm amber glow from its boiler house; natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and a clean blue-white flame visible through a glass panel; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a smaller conventional station with conveyor belts and a single cooling tower behind the gas plant; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse at the lower-left edge near a dark stream. Time is 04:00 in late July — the sky is completely black, deep navy-to-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, stars entirely hidden by 100 % overcast cloud layer making the sky a uniform dark grey-charcoal blanket; all illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium streetlamps casting amber pools on access roads, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles, the industrial glow of the coal and gas plants. Summer vegetation — lush green grass and full-leafed deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, dense humid air under thick clouds reflecting the price tension. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and glowing industrial installations, atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, and plant infrastructure. No text, no labels.