Gas, brown coal, and wind lead overnight generation as Germany imports 7.8 GW under full cloud cover.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 20%
44%
Renewable share
10.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.0 GW
Total generation
-7.8 GW
Net import
122.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
379
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 8.1 GW dominates the centre-right as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting pale plumes into the night; brown coal 7.4 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam columns rising into darkness; hard coal 5.3 GW appears as a gritty industrial complex with conveyor belts and rectangular chimneys just left of centre; wind onshore 8.6 GW spans the right third as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a dark horizon line at far right; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a modest smokestack and fuel storage dome in the middle ground; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam spillway glinting faintly at the far left edge. Scene is set at 1 AM in complete darkness — black sky, no moon, no twilight, heavy 100% overcast obscuring all stars, creating an oppressive low ceiling reflecting the orange-sodium glow of industrial lighting from below. Temperature is a cool 6°C early April: bare-branched trees with the faintest green buds, damp ground, patches of mist clinging to a river in the foreground. Moderate wind at 12.7 km/h animates steam plumes and turbine blades with gentle lateral drift. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive — sodium streetlights cast amber pools across wet access roads, industrial floodlights illuminate cooling towers and stacks, the collective glow paints the low cloud base in sickly orange and grey tones. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and surrounding darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.