Brown coal, gas, hard coal, and onshore wind power a midnight grid requiring 12.5 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 26%
43%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.9 GW
Total generation
12.5 GW
Net import
155.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
397
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; hard coal 3.9 GW appears center-left as a smaller coal plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys glowing dull red at their tips; natural gas 5.6 GW fills the center as two compact CCGT blocks with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin translucent plumes, their turbine halls illuminated by cool white floodlights; onshore wind 8.1 GW spans the right third and background as a line of roughly twenty tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant near center-right with a short smokestack and small conveyor belt, warmly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the far right background catching faint reflected light. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no sky glow — a deep navy-to-black vault with scattered stars barely visible through industrial haze. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, humid, and hazy, reflecting the high electricity price. Warm August vegetation — full dark-green deciduous trees with heavy leaf canopy — lines a river in the foreground reflecting the orange industrial glow. No solar panels, no sunshine. The overall mood is brooding nocturnal industry. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with smoky aerial perspective — yet every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, hyperbolic concrete shell geometry, CCGT gas turbine exhaust configurations. No text, no labels.