Strong overnight wind drives 14.4 GW net exports while coal and gas baseload hold steady under full cloud cover.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
65%
Renewable share
32.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
57.4 GW
Total generation
+14.4 GW
Net export
107.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°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
248
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors spinning visibly in the wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea line; brown coal 9.2 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 6.3 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh white facility lighting; hard coal 4.8 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and red aviation warning lights; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial building with a low exhaust stack and warm amber interior glow visible through windows; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam structure in the middle distance with faint white water visible below it. The sky is completely dark — deep black-navy, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover creating a heavy oppressive overcast ceiling that reflects the orange-sodium glow of industrial areas below. No moonlight, no twilight, no sky glow — pure nighttime at 04:00. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, reflecting the high electricity price. Autumn vegetation with browning grasses and sparse deciduous trees losing leaves, temperature around 12°C suggested by mist hanging low in the valleys between turbine rows. Wind visibly bends the grass and tree branches. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric depth, moody chiaroscuro between the black sky and the amber-lit industrial foreground. Meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT stack geometry. No text, no labels.