Coal and wind share the midnight load as Germany draws 13.2 GW of net imports under heavy overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 23%
49%
Renewable share
9.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.4 GW
Total generation
13.2 GW
Net import
174.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 4.4 GW sits to the left of centre as two dark industrial boiler houses with tall stacks trailing faint grey smoke; natural gas 3.6 GW appears centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plants with single polished exhaust stacks glowing under floodlights; biomass 3.9 GW occupies the centre as a wood-chip-fed generating station with a squat cylindrical silo and thin vapour plume; wind onshore 8.0 GW fills the right third as two staggered rows of large three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested far right as a faint line of turbine navigation lights on the distant horizon; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam spillway at far right, water gleaming under a single lamp. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, heavy 93% overcast blocking all stars and moon — no twilight, no sky glow whatsoever. The atmosphere is oppressive and dense, humid summer air at 22.6°C creating faint halos around every artificial light source. Lush midsummer deciduous trees and tall grasses border a wide river in the foreground reflecting the orange industrial glow. No solar panels visible anywhere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between sodium-lit steam clouds and absolute darkness, atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.