Wind leads at 21 GW but thermal plants and net imports cover a 5.2 GW nighttime shortfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
60%
Renewable share
21.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.9 GW
Total generation
-5.2 GW
Net import
118.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.0°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
87.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
279
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers receding into deep perspective across rolling farmland; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line above a faintly glinting sea; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.9 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a low turbine hall, warm orange light spilling from its windows; hard coal 4.5 GW appears as a smaller conventional station with a single large chimney and visible conveyor belts, adjacent to the lignite plant; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-clad combined heat-and-power plant with a modest smokestack and a pile of woodchips illuminated by a single floodlight; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure with water cascading through a spillway, catching artificial light at the far centre-right. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon glow, heavy 87% overcast clouds faintly visible only where industrial light reflects off their undersides in sickly orange tones. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low haze clings to the ground, steam and exhaust merge into the cloud base. Temperature is a cool 7°C in mid-May: spring foliage on scattered birch and beech trees is fresh green but subdued in the dark, with some mist rising from damp meadows between the turbines. Wind animates the scene — turbine blades show motion blur, grass bends, steam plumes shear sideways. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of deep blacks, warm industrial oranges, cool steel blues; visible expressive brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between the absolute darkness of the sky and the glowing industrial facilities below; atmospheric depth with receding turbine rows vanishing into darkness. Meticulous engineering detail on all structures: turbine nacelles with anemometers, cooling tower parabolic geometry with internal steam, CCGT heat recovery units. The painting conveys a vast nocturnal industrial landscape where human energy infrastructure confronts the dark spring night. No text, no labels.