Wind leads at 28.6 GW but post-sunset coal and gas ramp to fill the gap, lifting prices above 200 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
28.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.9 GW
Total generation
3.1 GW
Net import
201.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 9 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
263
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.2 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors slowly turning; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea on the horizon. Brown coal 10.0 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps at a sprawling lignite power complex. Natural gas 6.2 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits just right of centre as a coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a tall chimney with a faint red aviation light. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a rounded silo and gentle steam, warmly lit, nestled between the coal and wind zones. Hydro 0.8 GW is a small dam structure at the far left edge, water glinting under a single spotlight. TIME: 20:00 in late September — full night, completely dark sky with no twilight glow, deep navy-to-black above, 100% cloud cover so no stars visible. Temperature 20.5°C: late-summer vegetation still green but beginning to hint at autumn gold. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, clouds low and dense, reflecting the orange-amber industrial glow from below. The landscape feels weighty and brooding. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep colour palette of blacks, navy blues, warm oranges and ambers, visible confident brushwork, strong atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each power technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with structural ribbing, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer, coal conveyor systems. The scene conveys an industrial sublime — a grand nocturnal panorama of human energy infrastructure set against the vastness of a clouded, starless sky. No text, no labels, no human figures.