Wind and brown coal anchor midnight generation as tight supply margins drive elevated prices on a warm summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
58%
Renewable share
19.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.5 GW
Total generation
1.9 GW
Net import
154.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
7.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
293
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills, their red aviation lights blinking against a black sky; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, visible only by their warning lights. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks and illuminated turbine halls. Hard coal 3.5 GW sits beside it as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor structures under harsh white spotlights. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a cylindrical stack and glowing furnace grate visible through open doors. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a dark valley in the middle distance. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, nearly cloudless at 7% cover so a scattering of stars is visible; the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, conveying the 154 EUR/MWh price tension — a faint haze of humid warmth (25.3 °C) softens distant lights. Vegetation is lush midsummer — full-canopy deciduous trees with dark green foliage barely visible in the industrial glow. A gentle breeze (13.5 km/h) animates grass and leaves. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark countryside and the glowing industrial complexes, atmospheric depth receding into the warm night. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-clad CCGT housings, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with condensation plumes. No text, no labels.