Coal, wind, and biomass share a dark, import-dependent overnight grid under full cloud cover at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 20%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 20%
Brown coal 16%
53%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
19.4 GW
Total generation
+19.4 GW
Net export
142.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 16 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
336
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Hard coal 3.9 GW dominates the left foreground as a massive coal-fired power station with tall fluted chimneys emitting pale smoke; brown coal 3.1 GW sits just behind it as a pair of wide hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes rising into darkness; onshore wind 3.9 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning slowly in moderate wind; offshore wind 1.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of smaller turbines on the far right horizon; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a timber-sided fuel hopper and a single modest stack glowing orange from within; natural gas 2.2 GW occupies the centre as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and a warm sodium-lit perimeter; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a faint spillway gleam in the lower right. TIME: 04:00 — completely dark, deep black-navy sky with no twilight glow, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover; the only illumination comes from sodium-orange industrial floodlights, glowing furnace windows, and red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy — thick low clouds pressing down, reflecting faint amber light pollution from the facilities below, conveying the tension of a high-price hour. Late-summer vegetation: full-leafed deciduous trees rendered as dark silhouettes, tall grass slightly bent by 15 km/h winds. Temperature is mild at 15.6°C — no frost, no mist, just humid summer darkness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial sublime — meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every steel lattice. No text, no labels.