Strong wind generation (24.3 GW) and lignite baseload (8.7 GW) drive a 4.8 GW net export at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
64%
Renewable share
24.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.6 GW
Total generation
+4.8 GW
Net export
136.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
256
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into black sky; wind onshore 18.8 GW fills the centre and right half as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a dark rolling plain, their red aircraft-warning lights blinking; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the far right distance as a line of turbines along a barely visible dark coastline, their nacelle lights reflected on black water; natural gas 4.3 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer and faint orange flare light; hard coal 3.2 GW appears behind the gas units as a blocky power station with a single large chimney and a coal conveyor lit by sodium lamps; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial plant with a green-tinged stack near the lignite complex; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam structure in the distant valley. Time is 04:00 — complete night, deep black sky with no twilight or sky glow, 98% cloud cover hiding all stars, the atmosphere heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 13.6°C, late-summer vegetation is lush but invisible in the dark except where sodium-orange industrial floodlights catch patches of green grass and leafy trees. Low surface wind: no dramatic motion in foreground vegetation, yet the turbine blades rotate steadily in upper-altitude currents. The mood is brooding, dense, industrial. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime — warm sodium lighting contrasts against cool blue-black night — meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and gas-plant pipework. No text, no labels.