Brown coal and gas dominate overnight generation as low wind and zero solar force 9.4 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 34%
31%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.8 GW
Total generation
9.3 GW
Net import
183.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
87.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
486
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black night sky; natural gas 7.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two tall CCGT exhaust stacks with orange-lit gas flares and glowing turbine halls; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts visible under sodium-yellow floodlights; onshore wind 4.6 GW is rendered as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines on low rolling hills to the right, their red aircraft-warning lights blinking faintly, blades barely rotating in the near-still air; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack, positioned between the coal and wind installations; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam structure in the far right background with illuminated spillway; offshore wind 0.5 GW is a distant barely-visible row of tiny turbine silhouettes on a dark horizon line. The sky is completely black with 87% cloud cover obscuring all stars, the clouds faintly illuminated from below by the industrial glow of the power stations. No moonlight, no twilight — pure 4 AM darkness. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, with steam and haze from the cooling towers creating a dense, humid pall that diffuses the artificial light into murky halos. The September landscape shows dark mixed forest and stubble fields barely visible in the gloom. Temperature 12°C is conveyed through dew glistening on metal surfaces under the floodlights. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich dark palette of deep navy, burnt umber, ochre, and warm sodium orange — with visible impasto brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and smokestack, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blazing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth through layered steam and haze. No text, no labels.