Brown coal, gas, and wind dominate as evening demand and zero solar drive high prices and 14.7 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 26%
42%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.9 GW
Total generation
14.7 GW
Net import
236.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
391
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 9.6 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, floodlit in cold white; wind onshore 7.7 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed beyond a coastal ridge; hard coal 4.0 GW sits in the mid-left as a smaller conventional plant with a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-fired facility with a peaked roofline and a squat stack glowing warmly near the centre; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in a valley fold at far right. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black September night, no twilight, no sky glow — with a partly cloudy canopy at 45% cover where patches of stars and a slim crescent peek between clouds. The autumn landscape shows fields of stubble and trees just beginning to turn gold-brown, temperature around 15 °C conveyed by light jackets on two tiny figures near a fence. A moderate breeze animates the turbine blades and bends roadside grasses. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hazy with industrial steam and a yellowish pall reflecting the high electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective receding into smoky distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.