Brown coal and gas dominate nighttime generation as low wind and no solar drive high prices and 10.7 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 32%
37%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.0 GW
Total generation
10.7 GW
Net import
205.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 6 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
434
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, their bases glowing orange from furnace light; natural gas 8.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium-yellow industrial floodlights; wind onshore 7.4 GW spans the right third as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a dark ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 2.0 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea, marked by tiny red dots; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with pale exhaust, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station behind the lignite complex, with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts visible under floodlight; hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam structure at the far left edge near a river. The sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow, only a deep oppressive navy-black blanket of cloud faintly reflecting the orange industrial glow from below. The atmosphere is heavy and humid, mid-autumn with trees bearing thinning dark foliage at 14.6°C. The landscape is a broad German lowland river valley. The elevated price of 205 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a dense, brooding, oppressive atmosphere pressing down on the scene. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of blacks, burnt oranges, sulphur yellows, and cool blue-greys — visible impasto brushwork — dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the artificially lit industrial facilities — meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT stacks, conveyor systems — the mood of Caspar David Friedrich meeting the industrial sublime. No text, no labels.