Wind leads at 21.2 GW but post-sunset import need of 7.8 GW and thermal baseload drive prices above 200 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
58%
Renewable share
21.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
46.8 GW
Total generation
7.8 GW
Net import
201.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.0°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
43.0% / 18.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
297
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a dark navy-black night sky, illuminated from below by orange sodium lights on the plant grounds. Natural gas 6.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by industrial floodlights. Hard coal 4.1 GW sits just right of centre as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts, security lights casting sharp shadows. Wind onshore 16.1 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling farmland into the distance, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky. Wind offshore 5.1 GW appears on the far right horizon as a faint line of turbine warning lights above a dark sea. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a low rectangular boiler building and a single stack emitting pale vapour, positioned in the mid-ground between the coal complex and the wind farm. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway visible in the lower-left foreground, water glinting under security lamps. The sky is completely dark — it is 20:00 in late August, fully night, no twilight, no sky glow — a deep black to navy firmament with scattered stars visible through 43% broken cloud cover. The air is still at ground level with light breeze stirring late-summer green foliage on deciduous trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy, reflecting the high electricity price. The overall mood is industrial and electric, sodium-lit infrastructure glowing warm against the cool dark countryside. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between lit industrial facilities and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with receding rows of wind turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.