Strong wind generation dominates at midnight, but persistent coal baseload and high prices mark a complex summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 17%
69%
Renewable share
25.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.8 GW
Total generation
+4.1 GW
Net export
130.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
27.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
224
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling German farmland, rotors spinning vigorously in the night wind; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far-right background as a distant cluster of turbines on the dark horizon above a faintly glinting sea. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Hard coal 2.9 GW sits adjacent as a smaller conventional coal plant with a single tall chimney and conveyor belts visible under floodlights. Natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a modest vapor trail, positioned between the coal plants and the wind turbines. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a rounded silo and low smokestack emitting thin pale smoke, placed in the center-left. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam with spillway in the lower-left foreground beside a river reflecting industrial lights. The sky is completely dark—deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow—with scattered stars visible through 27% partial cloud cover. Late-summer vegetation: green but mature fields, leafy trees barely visible in artificial light. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: humid summer night air presses down, haze diffuses the sodium lights. All structures rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy in the style of a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep blues, and warm orange-amber industrial glows, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. No text, no labels.