Brown coal, gas, and onshore wind anchor overnight generation as Germany imports roughly 14 GW to meet demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 29%
39%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.1 GW
Total generation
14.4 GW
Net import
139.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°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
432
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, their concrete flanks lit by amber sodium lamps at their bases; onshore wind 6.0 GW occupies the centre-right as a row of tall three-blade turbines on a dark ridge, slowly turning, red aircraft warning lights blinking on their nacelles; natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, floodlit by white industrial lighting; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a dark power station silhouette with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt structures faintly illuminated; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a smaller industrial facility on the far right with a domed digester and warm interior glow through high windows; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure visible in the middle distance, water glinting faintly under facility lights. The sky is completely black with no twilight whatsoever — deep navy-to-black vault with scattered stars visible through gaps in the rising steam. The landscape is a gently rolling central German terrain with late-summer grass and mature deciduous trees, all rendered in near-darkness with only artificial light picking out edges. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, a faint industrial haze diffusing the sodium-orange glow across the lower sky. Temperature reads cool — a suggestion of dew on grass in the foreground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour contrasts between deep blacks and warm industrial orange, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth with receding layers of terrain. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice-reinforced tubular towers, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with realistic proportions, CCGT exhaust stacks with correct aspect ratios. The painting conveys a nocturnal industrial sublime — vast, brooding, technically precise. No text, no labels.