Brown coal and onshore wind anchor overnight generation as Germany imports 12.1 GW to meet nocturnal demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 28%
41%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.1 GW
Total generation
12.1 GW
Net import
143.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 5 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
416
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into blackness; onshore wind 6.8 GW fills the centre-right as a receding line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning slowly; natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as three compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the brown coal plant as a smaller power station with a tall brick chimney and visible coal conveyor; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and short stack glowing from within; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested in the far background as a small dam with water gleaming faintly. TIME: 02:00 — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, stars visible through gaps in the rising steam, no twilight, no sky glow on the horizon. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange industrial lighting on the power station structures, red aviation warning lights on the turbine nacelles, and faint amber glows from facility windows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a low haze clings to the ground, trapping the orange industrial light. Temperature is mild at 11.5°C — late-summer grass and leafy deciduous trees are faintly visible in the sodium light, lush but dew-covered. Wind is light, with turbine blades turning slowly. Cloud cover is zero, so stars are visible overhead between the plumes. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's sense of vastness and mystery merged with industrial subject matter — rich deep blues, warm oranges, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective pulling the eye from the glowing coal plant foreground into the dark wind-turbine horizon. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: three-blade rotors with correct nacelle housings, aluminium-clad CCGT stacks, reinforced-concrete hyperbolic cooling towers with internal steam luminescence. No text, no labels.