Wind dominance at 28.8 GW drives 8.6 GW net exports at midnight, while coal and gas baseload persists despite surplus.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 13%
67%
Renewable share
28.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
51.2 GW
Total generation
+8.6 GW
Net export
139.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.2°C / 2 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
227
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills into the far distance; brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the black sky, illuminated from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 6.5 GW appears as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with single tall exhaust stacks glowing faintly beside the cooling towers; hard coal 3.8 GW is rendered as a smaller power station with a squat chimney and conveyor belt silhouette in the mid-left background; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-clad plant with a single low stack emitting thin white vapor near the center; hydro 1.1 GW is a small weir with turbine house at the base of a gentle valley in the far center-right; wind offshore 4.3 GW is suggested by distant turbines visible on a dark horizon line at the far right edge. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep black with no twilight, no sky glow, no moon visible; 100% cloud cover means no stars visible either, a flat oppressive black canopy. The only light sources are sodium-amber streetlights along a country road, orange-white floodlights on the industrial facilities, and faint red aviation warning lights blinking atop every wind turbine nacelle, creating dotted red constellations across the dark hills. The warm 23°C summer night shows lush green vegetation faintly visible under the artificial light — full deciduous canopy, tall grass, late-summer foliage. The atmosphere feels heavy and humid, with the cooling tower steam spreading laterally in still air (wind at ground level is calm at 2.1 km/h despite strong winds aloft turning the turbines). The elevated price of 139.5 EUR/MWh is reflected in a dense, oppressive atmospheric quality — the air itself feels thick and weighted, haze clinging to the industrial facilities. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters like Caspar David Friedrich, with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep darkness and isolated pools of industrial light, atmospheric depth created through layered darkness receding to the horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy in turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stack proportions, and conveyor belt structures. No text, no labels.