Wind leads at 15.2 GW but gas and coal fill a 6 GW import gap on a dark, overcast summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 8%
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
6.0 GW
Net import
149.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines visible on a black sea horizon with faint navigational lights. Brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Natural gas 7.3 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with sleek exhaust stacks and smaller vapour plumes, their facilities illuminated by white industrial floodlights. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station behind the gas plants, with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors visible under work lights. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-fired plant with a modest stack and warm-glowing facility windows in the centre-right middle ground. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure with lit spillway in the distant centre. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 96% cloud cover erasing all stars — an oppressive, low overcast ceiling faintly reflecting the amber and white industrial glow from below. Summer vegetation — full dark-green deciduous trees, tall meadow grasses — is barely visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and humid at 16°C, with a sense of industrial weight pressing down. Moderate wind animates the turbine blades and bends grasses. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of blacks, deep navy, amber, and industrial orange — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, CCGT stacks, and coal conveyors. No text, no labels.