Brown coal and onshore wind lead overnight generation as Germany draws 12.5 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 31%
44%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
12.5 GW
Net import
127.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
26.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
399
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the night sky; onshore wind 6.7 GW occupies the centre-right as a long ridge of three-blade turbines with red aviation warning lights blinking, rotors turning slowly; natural gas 4.1 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks and a faint blue-orange glow from within; biomass 3.6 GW sits in the mid-ground as a wood-chip-fed plant with a modest single smokestack and warm amber-lit conveyor infrastructure; hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station to the far left with a single cooling tower; offshore wind 1.1 GW is suggested as distant tiny red lights on the far horizon; hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small illuminated dam structure nestled in a valley at the right edge. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with no twilight or sky glow — it is 4 AM in August. Stars are faintly visible through 26% cloud cover. The summer landscape has lush dark vegetation barely visible by sodium-orange streetlights along a rural road. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low haze clings to the cooling tower bases, and the air feels thick and warm at 17.7°C. All facilities are lit by their own industrial lighting: sodium lamps, security floods, and glowing control rooms. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigos, warm ambers, and cool greys, with visible impasto brushwork and atmospheric depth. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower shells with internal steam, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.