Strong overnight wind (32.3 GW) dominates generation, with lignite and gas providing thermal baseload in a net-export position.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
32.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
+5.8 GW
Net export
86.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 12 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
167
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, their rotors spinning briskly in the night wind, arranged across rolling dark hills receding into atmospheric depth; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of even taller turbines on the far-right horizon, their red aviation warning lights blinking against a pitch-black sky; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights, with conveyor belts and coal bunkers visible; natural gas 4.6 GW sits centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a tall single exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer, its control building windows glowing warm yellow; hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller power station just behind the gas plant, with a rectangular stack and faint smoke; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired facility in the mid-ground with a low rounded silo and thin wisp of exhaust; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in a valley at the far left with a faint white water spill catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark, no twilight, no moon visible, dense 100% cloud cover creating a heavy low ceiling of charcoal-grey clouds faintly illuminated by the industrial glow below. Temperature is near freezing, and the autumn landscape shows bare or nearly bare deciduous trees, dry brown grass, and a cold misty atmosphere. The air feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial orange light and the vast surrounding darkness, atmospheric perspective fading the distant turbines into haze — yet every piece of engineering is rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: lattice sub-towers, nacelle housings, three-blade rotor geometry, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust details. No text, no labels.