Brown coal and gas dominate nighttime generation as low wind and high temperatures drive heavy imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 30%
43%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.0 GW
Total generation
15.7 GW
Net import
170.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
407
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the dark sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps; wind onshore 6.2 GW occupies the centre-right as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers across rolling hills, their rotors nearly still in the calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 4.8 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing turbine halls behind chain-link fencing; hard coal 3.2 GW sits beside the lignite station as a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular stack and coal conveyor belts faintly illuminated; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with cylindrical digesters and a modest chimney, warm interior light spilling from open loading bays; wind offshore 1.1 GW is barely visible on the far-right horizon as a faint cluster of red blinking lights suggesting distant turbines at sea; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam structure in the middle distance with floodlit spillway. The sky is completely dark, deep navy to black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 89 percent cloud cover rendering the sky an opaque vault with no stars, the atmosphere thick and oppressive suggesting the 170 EUR/MWh price tension. The summer landscape is lush with dark green deciduous trees and warm grass barely visible in the industrial glow. Sodium streetlights line a small road in the foreground. Temperature of 25.4 degrees Celsius is conveyed through hazy humid air and a faint heat shimmer around the cooling towers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of deep blues, warm ambers, and industrial oranges — visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the pitch-black sky, atmospheric depth with distant haze, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.