Strong overnight wind at 27 GW meets persistent coal and gas generation under tight margins requiring slight net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
66%
Renewable share
27.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.2 GW
Total generation
-0.9 GW
Net import
109.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
36.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
237
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.9 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness, red aviation lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a barely visible dark sea, their warning lights reflecting on black water; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps at a lignite power station; natural gas 4.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, illuminated by facility floodlights; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre as a large coal-fired station with a single wide chimney and conveyor belts visible under industrial lighting; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a smaller wood-chip fired plant with a modest smokestack and a glowing furnace visible through an open bay, positioned between the coal and wind zones; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the left middle distance, water catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight or sky glow, partial cloud cover at 36% revealing scattered stars between clouds. The air is cold at 6°C, early spring — bare-branched trees mixed with the first pale green buds, frost on grass edges. Wind visibly moves the clouds and bends bare branches. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding industrial density hangs over the scene. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against the black night, atmospheric depth with steam and haze layering the middle ground. Meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry, and coal conveyor structures. No text, no labels.