Wind leads at 22.7 GW with brown coal baseload at 8.7 GW; tight margins drive net imports of 1.8 GW at midnight.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 21%
67%
Renewable share
22.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.5 GW
Total generation
1.8 GW
Net import
103.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
243
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes illuminated from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Wind offshore 6.0 GW appears on the far right horizon as a line of turbines standing in dark water, their red aviation warning lights blinking. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack glowing warmly. Natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit near the brown coal complex, lit by white floodlights. Hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller power station with a conveyor belt and single cooling tower behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir reflecting faint industrial light in the mid-ground. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no moon, a thick 93% overcast erasing all stars, the heavy cloud deck faintly catching the orange-sodium glow of the industrial facilities below. No solar panels anywhere. The atmosphere is oppressive and dense, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Autumn vegetation — browning grasses, sparse deciduous trees with thinning leaves — at 12°C. The landscape is a German lowland plain. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of deep indigo, warm orange, and cool grey; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layered mist around the cooling towers; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.