Strong onshore wind drives 79% renewables at nightfall; coal and gas fill the balance amid elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 56%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
79%
Renewable share
33.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
+0.6 GW
Net export
114.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
54.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling hills from centre to far right, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or estuary; natural gas 4.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant in the left-centre with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer lit by sodium floodlights; biomass 4.4 GW sits nearby as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and a single smokestack with faint white exhaust; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the dark sky, illuminated from below by amber industrial lighting; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single stack and coal bunker just behind the cooling towers; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam structure at the far left with water glinting under floodlights. TIME: 20:00 in September — full night, completely dark sky, deep navy-black above, no twilight, no sky glow, stars barely visible through 54% cloud cover rendered as grey-charcoal masses drifting across the firmament. The landscape is late-summer with green-turning-gold foliage at 18.3°C, grass and trees still lush but hinting at autumn. Artificial sodium-orange streetlights and industrial floods provide all illumination, casting warm pools of light on the infrastructure. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid air, dense cloud layers pressing low, a brooding tension in the scene. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich dark colour palette of deep blues, blacks, warm ambers, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — lattice tower bases, nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. The painting conveys the sublime scale of industrial energy infrastructure against the indifferent night. No text, no labels.