Strong wind dominates at 31.9 GW but a 5.1 GW net import fills the evening demand gap, driving prices above 200 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
73%
Renewable share
32.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.8 GW
Total generation
5.1 GW
Net import
204.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 5.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
183
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far background as a line of offshore turbines barely visible on a dark horizon beyond a river estuary. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Natural gas 4.8 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, lit by bright facility floodlights. Hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt infrastructure, glowing dimly beside a coal stockpile. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded dome and short stack trailing pale smoke, adjacent to timber storage yards. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with illuminated sluice gates in the mid-ground beside the river. TIME OF DAY: 20:00 in early September — fully dark night sky, no twilight, no sky glow, deep black-navy heavens with 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars; the only illumination comes from sodium streetlights along a road, orange-white floodlights at industrial sites, and glowing facility windows. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low thick clouds press down, barely visible except where industrial light catches their undersides in sickly amber. Vegetation is late-summer green, barely discernible in the darkness. Wind visibly bends grass and tree branches. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light pools and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze around cooling tower plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene conveys an industrial sublime — human infrastructure glowing defiantly against a vast dark overcast night. No text, no labels.