Lignite, gas, and coal dominate midnight generation; low wind and no solar drive high prices and 9.4 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 31%
31%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.3 GW
Total generation
9.5 GW
Net import
181.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
37.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
477
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black night sky; natural gas 8.3 GW fills the center-left as a cluster of modern CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks crowned by pale gas flares and wispy exhaust; hard coal 4.9 GW appears center-right as a heavy industrial coal plant with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a single large chimney trailing dark smoke; wind onshore 5.5 GW is represented by a line of eight three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, their red aviation warning lights blinking faintly, rotors turning very slowly in the near-still air; wind offshore 0.5 GW appears as two barely visible turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.1 GW sits as a mid-sized wood-chip fired plant with a modest stack and warm amber-lit windows near the center; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam structure nestled in a valley at the far right edge with a faint spill of water catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep black-navy, no moon visible, scattered stars peeking through 37% cloud cover rendered as thin drifting alto-stratus wisps. The landscape is early-autumn German lowland with darkened fields, trees just beginning to turn golden-brown, lit only by the sodium-orange glow of industrial facility lights and the ghostly white of cooling tower steam illuminated from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding density in the air, industrial haze hanging low. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower parabolic profile, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.