Brown coal and gas dominate overnight generation as low wind and zero solar force 6.9 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 34%
33%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.0 GW
Total generation
6.9 GW
Net import
161.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 2 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
463
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.0 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a pitch-black, completely overcast night sky; natural gas 8.2 GW fills the centre-left as rows of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer, lit by harsh sodium floodlights; hard coal 3.2 GW appears centre-right as a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts visible under industrial lighting; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized plants with wood-chip storage domes and shorter stacks glowing warmly, positioned right of centre; wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on rolling hills in the right background, their red aviation warning lights blinking faintly, rotors nearly still in the calm 1.5 km/h air; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbine lights on a dark horizon line at far right; hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small dam structure nestled in a valley at the far right edge, with a thin cascade illuminated by a single floodlight. The sky is absolutely black and starless, a heavy 100% cloud ceiling pressing down oppressively — no twilight, no moon, no sky glow — conveying the tension of a 161 EUR/MWh price. Autumn vegetation: dark ochre and brown grasses, bare-branching deciduous trees at 13.9°C. Ground is damp. All illumination comes from artificial sources — orange sodium streetlamps along access roads, white LED floodlights on plant structures, glowing furnace mouths casting red-orange reflections on nearby concrete. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of blacks, deep navy, amber, and furnace-orange — visible impasto brushwork — atmospheric depth with industrial haze — meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust stacks, and conveyor infrastructure — the scene evokes a brooding masterwork of the nocturnal industrial sublime. No text, no labels.