Brown coal and wind anchor overnight generation as 7.1 GW net imports fill the gap at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 33%
40%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.8 GW
Total generation
7.1 GW
Net import
150.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 3 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
429
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.8 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 lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer into the blackness; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure under harsh security lighting; wind onshore 4.9 GW is rendered in the right background as a cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the pitch-black sky, blades barely turning in the near-still air; wind offshore 5.0 GW is suggested far right on a distant dark horizon line by a row of tiny red navigation lights marking an offshore array; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip storage dome and a modest chimney glowing warmly; hydro 0.7 GW is a small concrete dam structure at the far edge with a single floodlit spillway. The sky is completely black and starless under 100% cloud cover — no moon, no twilight, no sky glow, deep oppressive overcast pressing down on the scene. Temperature is 7.5°C in early October: bare deciduous trees with a few last brown leaves, frost forming on grass in the foreground, breath-visible cold. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive — low mist drifts between the cooling towers, sodium streetlights cast amber pools on wet roads, and high-voltage transmission pylons with sagging cables recede into the murk, suggesting the grid pulling power from afar. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, brooding colour palette of deep indigo, burnt umber, soot-black, and warm sodium amber; visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes and mist; atmospheric depth created through layered darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and pylon crossarm. The scene evokes the sublime industrial nocturne — Caspar David Friedrich reimagined for the modern energy landscape. No text, no labels.