Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate overnight generation as low wind and net imports of 9.5 GW drive elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 31%
30%
Renewable share
5.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.1 GW
Total generation
9.6 GW
Net import
165.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
32.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
484
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the night; natural gas 7.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, lit by orange sodium floodlights; hard coal 4.9 GW appears centre-right as a massive coal-fired station with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts, and a pair of tall chimneys glowing red at their tips; onshore wind 4.7 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, their rotors barely turning in the calm air, blinking red aviation lights on each nacelle; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the wind turbines; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the middle distance with illuminated spillway; offshore wind 0.5 GW is a faint cluster of turbine lights on the far horizon line. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with scattered stars visible through 32% cloud cover — thin cirrus clouds drift across the firmament. The temperature is 6.3°C, early autumn: trees at the edges show leaves beginning to turn amber and brown, touched by the glow of facility lights. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, conveying the tension of high electricity prices — a brooding, weighty sky pressing down on the industrial landscape. All structures are lit only by artificial light: sodium-orange floodlights on plant grounds, the faint red glow from chimney tops, blinking aviation beacons. 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 chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.