Wind and coal anchor overnight generation while 10.8 GW net imports fill high summer demand at midnight.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 21%
49%
Renewable share
11.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.5 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
155.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.1°C / 10 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
350
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising into the black night sky, steam plumes glowing faintly amber from internal furnace light; hard coal 4.2 GW sits just right of centre-left as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and twin smokestacks emitting pale grey exhaust lit from below by sodium lamps; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, their turbine halls illuminated by white industrial floodlights; wind onshore 8.2 GW fills the right third as a sweeping line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, red aviation warning lights blinking at nacelle height, blades slowly turning in light breeze; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a row of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon, marked by clusters of red lights; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with a rounded silo and modest smokestack near the centre-right, warmly lit by yellowish security lighting; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background, lit by a single floodlight reflecting on dark water. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, only faint stars partially obscured by 27% cloud cover rendered as thin wisps. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting 155 EUR/MWh pricing — a dense, hazy quality to the air, humid summer warmth suggested by lush green vegetation faintly visible under sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich chiaroscuro, dramatic contrast between the black sky and the amber-orange industrial glow, visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.