Strong onshore wind drives 72% renewables at 4 AM; brown coal provides baseload as Germany exports 3.9 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
72%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.0 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
115.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 17 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
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors spinning visibly in steady wind; brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a barely visible dark sea; natural gas 3.7 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and thin vapour trails, positioned centre-left; hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single smokestack and conveyor belt, just left of centre; biomass 3.8 GW is shown as a modest wood-clad CHP facility with a gently smoking stack near the centre foreground; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam structure with water glinting faintly at the far left edge. Time is 4 AM — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no horizon glow, heavy 100% cloud cover erasing all stars, a deep oppressive overcast darkness reflecting the high electricity price. The only illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting orange pools along a country road in the foreground, the red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles, and the amber industrial glow of the coal and gas plants. Temperature is mild at 17°C; late-summer vegetation — full deciduous trees, tall grass — is barely visible in the artificial light, leaves stirring in 17 km/h wind. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, warm amber, and smoky grey, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth conveyed through layered mist and steam. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, hyperbolic cooling tower profiles, aluminium exhaust stacks. The mood is brooding, vast, industrial-sublime. No text, no labels.