Strong overnight wind drives 27 GW of generation; brown coal holds baseload as Germany exports 5.5 GW into elevated markets.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 49%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
74%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.2 GW
Total generation
+5.5 GW
Net export
100.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
83.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
189
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors spinning visibly in the breeze; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears in the far background as a cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible dark sea on the horizon; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and single smokestack glowing warmly near the coal station; hard coal 2.3 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a rectangular stack beside the lignite complex; natural gas 2.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housing, exhaust shimmering faintly; hydro 1.4 GW is a concrete dam structure nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge with water gleaming under artificial floodlights. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — with heavy 83% cloud cover obscuring all stars, the atmosphere oppressive and heavy suggesting high electricity prices. Late-summer vegetation is lush and green but visible only where sodium streetlights and industrial facility lights cast pools of warm orange illumination. The 13.8 km/h wind is conveyed through swaying grass and turbine blade motion blur. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, burnt umber, and amber; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze and steam catching the artificial light; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, and exhaust stack. The mood is brooding industrial sublime — power and scale against the vast darkness. No text, no labels.