Coal and wind dominate predawn generation as Germany imports 7.4 GW under elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 20%
48%
Renewable share
9.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.7 GW
Total generation
7.4 GW
Net import
154.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.3°C / 6 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
360
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into pitch-black sky, their concrete forms lit by orange sodium lamps at their bases; hard coal 4.7 GW sits just right of centre as a heavy industrial complex with conveyor belts, tall chimneys trailing dark smoke, and harsh industrial floodlighting; natural gas 4.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by blue-white security lighting; wind onshore 7.7 GW spans the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning slowly, marked by blinking red aviation warning lights against the completely dark sky; wind offshore 2.1 GW suggested in the far right background as a faint line of red blinking lights over a dark sea horizon; biomass 3.6 GW rendered as a medium-sized plant with a woodchip storage dome and a single smokestack glowing warmly between the coal and gas facilities; hydro 1.0 GW shown as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background, faintly illuminated. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no sky glow — deep navy-to-black with scattered stars barely visible through an oppressive, heavy industrial haze that conveys high electricity prices. The landscape is flat central German terrain with summer grass barely visible in artificial light, temperature around 13°C suggesting light ground mist curling around the bases of structures. Calm air with minimal wind motion in vegetation. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of umber, ochre, and deep Prussian blue — visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against total darkness, atmospheric depth with haze and mist layering. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-clad industrial buildings, reinforced concrete cooling towers with correct parabolic profiles, steel exhaust stacks. The mood is brooding, industrially sublime, a nocturnal masterwork of the working landscape. No text, no labels.