Strong onshore wind leads generation at night while coal and gas provide firm thermal backup amid elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
70%
Renewable share
28.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
0.6 GW
Net import
174.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 13 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
203
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling Central German hills into the deep background, rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on a dark horizon line at far right, lit by red aviation warning lights. Brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into overcast blackness, flanked by conveyor belts and ash-grey lignite bunkers. Natural gas 5.8 GW sits left of centre as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with twin slender exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling tower, warmly lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Hard coal 3.1 GW appears as a single large coal-fired power station behind the gas plant, its tall chimney marked by a red blinking light, a modest plume trailing. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed digester tank and a short smokestack, positioned centre-left, glowing with warm interior light from its operational hall. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam structure in the middle distance along a dark river reflecting artificial lights. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, fully overcast at 100% cloud cover with no stars or moon visible, no twilight whatsoever — pure night. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low clouds seem to press downward, and the humid 17.9°C late-summer air is rendered as a faint haze around the industrial lights. Late-summer vegetation — dark green deciduous trees with full canopies, tall grasses — frames the foreground. Sodium streetlights along a road cast amber pools of light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.