Wind and brown coal anchor overnight generation as Germany imports 9 GW to meet 42.8 GW demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 26%
51%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.8 GW
Total generation
9.0 GW
Net import
141.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
27.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a pair of large coal-fired stations with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor gantries just right of centre, glowing dimly under industrial floodlights; natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, positioned in the centre-right middle ground; wind onshore 9.1 GW fills the right third and extends into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness, rotors turning slowly in light 3.8 km/h wind; wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint row of nacelle lights above an invisible sea; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-burning plant with a single squat stack and small steam plume near the centre foreground; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway at the far left edge. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight glow whatsoever, a few stars visible through 27% cloud cover of thin alto-stratus patches. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 141.3 EUR/MWh price — a low humid haze clings to the ground, tinted amber by sodium streetlights lining a road in the foreground. Summer vegetation — lush dark-green deciduous trees and tall grass — is barely visible in the artificial light, glistening slightly with overnight dew at 13.4°C. A high-voltage transmission pylon with bundled conductors stands prominently in the mid-ground, symbolising the import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.