Wind leads at 15.1 GW but 15.8 GW of fossil thermal and 4.9 GW net imports fill overnight demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
56%
Renewable share
15.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
4.9 GW
Net import
151.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 8 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
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes into the blackness; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks glowing faintly from internal combustion light; hard coal 3.3 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a squat chimney trailing dark smoke; wind onshore 11.9 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking rhythmically against the sky; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single moderate stack emitting light grey vapour, positioned between the gas plant and the coal station; hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a concrete dam spillway in the lower-left foreground with water catching reflections of sodium-orange industrial light. The sky is entirely black with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy, oppressive, low overcast ceiling reflecting faint amber light pollution from the industrial installations below. The air feels warm and humid at 16°C; summer foliage on deciduous trees in the mid-ground is lush and dark green, barely visible except where illuminated by facility floodlights. Sodium streetlights line a road crossing the foreground. The overall atmosphere is dense, weighty, and industrial, conveying the tension of a high-price night. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of the sublime applied to an industrial nocturne — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.