Wind leads at 16.1 GW combined, brown coal provides 8.1 GW baseload, and net imports cover a 3.4 GW shortfall at night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 22%
56%
Renewable share
16.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
3.3 GW
Net import
151.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 7 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
309
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, their concrete shells faintly lit by orange sodium lamps at their bases; natural gas 4.6 GW appears center-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.2 GW sits just right of center as a conventional coal plant with a tall chimney stack and conveyor belt infrastructure, safety lights dotting its silhouette; biomass 3.4 GW is rendered as a squat industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and short stacks, warm amber light spilling from open loading bays; wind onshore 12.9 GW spans the entire right third and recedes deep into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in rhythmic patterns across rolling hills; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested at the far right horizon as a faint line of turbine warning lights over a dark sea; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam structure in the mid-ground valley with a faint white churn of water below it. The sky is completely black and starless, heavy with 100 percent overcast cloud pressing down oppressively — no twilight, no moon, no sky glow whatsoever. The atmosphere feels thick and weighted, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is cool early autumn at 11.6 degrees Celsius; grass and deciduous trees in the foreground are still green but beginning to turn, visible only where sodium streetlights cast their amber pools. A light breeze animates the grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of deep navy, burnt umber, and amber; visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes and clouds; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ring, and gas stack; dramatic chiaroscuro between the black night and the scattered industrial illumination; atmospheric depth achieved through layered recession of turbine lights into fog. No text, no labels.