Nighttime wind and coal dominate as tight supply margins and gas-price-setting push day-ahead rates above 120 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 20%
54%
Renewable share
14.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.5 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
121.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
316
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.3 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the blackness. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Natural gas 5.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility in the centre-left, its single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer, the turbine hall glowing warmly through rectangular windows. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the brown coal station as a smaller complex with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts visible under spotlights. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a squat smokestack and a pile of timber beside it, positioned in the centre-right middle ground. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a spillway in the far right background, water catching faint reflected light. Offshore wind 0.6 GW is barely hinted at as a tiny cluster of turbine lights on the distant horizon line. The sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a deep oppressive darkness pressing down, conveying the elevated electricity price. The air feels cold at 6.6°C; spring vegetation on the hillsides is fresh green but rendered in muted near-monochrome under artificial light. A moderate wind of 18 km/h animates the turbine blades, bends young birch trees, and shreds the steam plumes sideways from the cooling towers. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, and sodium-amber; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the vast surrounding darkness; atmospheric depth receding into the black horizon. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, and plant infrastructure. No text, no labels.