Strong onshore wind and persistent coal-gas baseload drive 10.6 GW net exports at an unusually high midnight price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
59%
Renewable share
28.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
+10.6 GW
Net export
160.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
21.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and illuminated red aviation warning lights on their nacelles, rotors visibly spinning in steady wind, stretching across rolling dark farmland into deep perspective. Brown coal 10.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights, with conveyor belts and lignite bunkers visible at their base. Natural gas 7.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant in the centre-left middle ground, twin exhaust stacks releasing thin translucent heat shimmer, their metallic housings gleaming under harsh facility lighting. Hard coal 4.7 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional power station with a single large chimney and coal storage yard under yellow floodlights. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired facility with a domed storage silo and a short stack, warmly lit. Hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir in the foreground with water glinting under reflected light. The sky is completely dark — deep black to navy, no twilight, no sky glow — with scattered stars visible through 21% thin cloud wisps. A waning crescent moon faintly illuminates cloud edges. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear patches, conveying the tension of a high-price hour: a faint amber industrial haze hangs low over the thermal plants. Early autumn vegetation — dark stubble fields, trees with full but heavy foliage just beginning to turn — is barely visible in the ambient industrial glow. Temperature around 13°C suggested by a slight mist near the river. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the glowing industrial complexes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.