Brown coal, gas, and wind power a tight nighttime grid requiring ~7.8 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 29%
40%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.0 GW
Total generation
7.9 GW
Net import
169.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 1 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
417
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 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 rising into a pitch-black, fully overcast sky; natural gas 7.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and faint orange combustion glow visible through vents; wind onshore 7.6 GW spans the centre-right as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors barely turning in the near-calm air; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested in the far background as a faint line of red warning lights on the distant horizon; hard coal 3.7 GW appears as a traditional coal-fired plant to the right of the lignite complex with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt structures lit by sodium floodlights; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small chimneys emitting thin vapour, positioned in the right foreground; hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small dam structure at the far right edge with water gleaming under artificial light. The sky is completely black and heavy, no stars visible through 100% cloud cover, creating an oppressive ceiling that presses down on the industrial landscape, reflecting the high electricity price. Sodium-orange streetlights line a road in the foreground, casting pools of amber light on wet late-September grass and browning vegetation. The overall atmosphere is heavy, humid, industrial. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.