Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas dominate overnight generation as Germany imports 10.4 GW to meet demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 26%
47%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.6 GW
Total generation
-10.4 GW
Net import
112.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
373
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 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 blackness, lit from below by amber sodium lights on the plant grounds; onshore wind 8.8 GW spans the right third as a long receding line of three-blade turbine rotors on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the dark sky, blades turning at moderate speed; natural gas 4.7 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with tall single exhaust stacks venting translucent heat shimmer, lit by white industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.6 GW appears just behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a rectangular boiler house and a single wide smokestack trailing faint grey exhaust; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a green-lit cylindrical silo and low steam output, positioned centre-right between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river dam visible in the mid-ground with a faint cascade of white water illuminated by a single floodlight; offshore wind 0.3 GW is barely suggested as a single distant turbine silhouette on the far-right horizon. The sky is completely black with full 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy oppressive overcast ceiling pressing down, reflecting faint amber-orange industrial light pollution. The landscape is a gently rolling central German plain in spring, grass and young deciduous foliage rendered in dark greens and blacks. The temperature is mild at 12°C — no frost, no mist, the air damp and still. The overall atmosphere is heavy and brooding, befitting the high electricity price: an oppressive industrial nightscape. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.