Wind and thermal plants share overnight generation while 7.4 GW net imports cover Germany's midnight demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 16%
53%
Renewable share
13.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
7.4 GW
Net import
176.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
310
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.8 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a valley gap; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift across the scene, adjacent conveyor belts and lignite bunkers faintly illuminated; hard coal 3.7 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall chimney and glowing furnace light visible through grated openings; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rounded silo and a modest stack with warm amber exhaust glow; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with cascading water reflecting floodlight in the middle distance. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 100% cloud cover erasing all stars, no moonlight, no twilight — only artificial illumination from the industrial facilities casts pools of warm orange and white light. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, humid summer air at 16.8°C making the steam plumes linger and spread low. Lush green summer vegetation on the hillsides is barely visible in the darkness. High-voltage transmission lines with red aviation warning lights cross the scene, symbolising import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep blues, blacks, warm ambers and sodium oranges, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with steam and haze layering the distance — but with meticulous technical accuracy in rendering turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry, and coal conveyor infrastructure. The scene evokes an industrial sublime: monumental, brooding, technically precise. No text, no labels.