Wind and fading solar lead renewables at 72%, but a 15.6 GW import need drives prices to 257 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 24%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
72%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.8 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
15.7 GW
Net import
257.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
17.0% / 10.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
208
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green late-summer hills; solar 9.8 GW occupies the center-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching no sunlight, their dark glass surfaces reflecting only faint artificial light; brown coal 6.8 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps of an industrial complex; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears in the far background as silhouettes of offshore turbines on a dark sea horizon; hard coal 2.7 GW sits adjacent to the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts; natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard; hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a river in the valley. TIME: 20:00 in September, fully dark—deep navy-to-black sky, no twilight glow, no sunset colors, stars faintly visible through 17% cloud wisps. All structures lit exclusively by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps, white LED floodlights on industrial buildings, glowing control-room windows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a very high electricity price—thick humid air, slight haze around the cooling tower plumes, a brooding quality to the darkness. Temperature 23.4°C: lush green deciduous vegetation, late-summer fullness, warm air suggested by heat shimmer near the coal plant. Moderate breeze animates the turbine blades and bends tall grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth with layers of distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The painting conveys the sublime tension between nature and industry under a starlit, oppressive September night. No text, no labels.