Wind and lignite dominate a mild September night at zero price, with modest net imports bridging a 1.7 GW gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 28%
54%
Renewable share
14.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
1.8 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
15.0°C / 12 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
344
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black night sky, lit from below by amber sodium lights revealing their concrete ribbing; hard coal 3.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant just right of centre with a single tall stack and red aviation warning lights; natural gas 2.6 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and faint blue-white floodlighting beside the coal plant; biomass 3.8 GW is represented as a modest industrial building with a wood-chip conveyor and a gently glowing furnace window at centre-right; wind onshore 12.0 GW fills the right third and extends into the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their nacelle lights blinking red in rhythmic patterns, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.8 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea sliver; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam structure with water gleaming under a single floodlight in the far background. The sky is entirely black with heavy 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight — only deep charcoal clouds faintly visible where industrial light catches them. The landscape is a gentle rolling German plateau with late-summer vegetation, dark green grasses barely visible under artificial light. Temperature is mild at 15°C, a faint mist clings to low ground. The atmosphere is calm and still, befitting a zero-price hour. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich, dark palette of deep navy, warm amber, and cool grey, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.