Brown coal, gas, and wind dominate overnight generation as cold temperatures and zero solar drive elevated prices and net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 30%
40%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.5 GW
Total generation
6.5 GW
Net import
160.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.3°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
418
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a pitch-black sky, their concrete forms lit by harsh sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 6.1 GW occupies the centre-left as several compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by bluish-white floodlights; hard coal 3.4 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belt structures lit by amber lamps; wind onshore 7.2 GW spans much of the right half as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, rotors turning moderately in a 10.8 km/h breeze; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested in the far-right distance as a faint line of red blinking lights on the dark horizon; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest exhaust stack glowing warmly between the coal and wind sections; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam structure in the far background, water barely visible, lit by a single floodlight. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no moon, no twilight, stars faintly visible through perfectly clear skies (0% cloud cover). The landscape is a gently rolling German plain in late September, grass beginning to brown, deciduous trees losing early leaves, a thin ground frost glistening under the industrial light — temperature 4.3 °C conveyed by visible breath-like condensation near ground-level structures. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, conveying the tension of a 160.8 EUR/MWh price — a dense, weighty stillness over the industrial panorama. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the orange-lit industrial foreground and the vast black sky, atmospheric depth receding into darkness. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-clad cooling towers with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat distortion. No text, no labels.