Midnight imports of ~14 GW supplement brown coal, wind, and gas as solar is absent and demand exceeds domestic supply.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 26%
48%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
-13.9 GW
Net import
141.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
360
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 7.6 GW dominates the right third of the scene as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by amber sodium lights of an industrial complex; natural gas 5.0 GW fills the center-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.9 GW appears center-right as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall smokestack and piles of woodchip fuel under floodlights; hard coal 2.3 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with a single large chimney and conveyor belts behind the lignite complex; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete dam structure visible in the far background valley with water cascading under spotlight illumination. The sky is completely black, no twilight, no moon, a deep navy void with full 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars — heavy, oppressive overcast pressing down on the scene to reflect the 141 EUR/MWh price. The time is midnight in central Germany: all illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights, industrial floodlights casting pools of warm amber on concrete and steel, and the dull red glow from coal furnace openings. Early summer vegetation — lush green grass and leafy deciduous trees — is barely visible at the edges of light pools. The atmosphere is humid and heavy, with low-hanging mist mixing with steam plumes. No solar panels anywhere. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated darks, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze receding into blackness — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT stack. The scene conveys the sublime scale of industrial infrastructure against the void of a sealed night sky. No text, no labels.