Strong overnight wind at 29.4 GW drives 81% renewable share while brown coal and gas provide residual baseload at 1 AM.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
29.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.9 GW
Total generation
-0.0 GW
Net import
79.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
66.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
132
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling fields into the darkness, blades visibly turning in strong wind; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far right background as distant turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed beyond coastal hills. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Biomass 3.7 GW sits left of centre as a series of rectangular wood-chip power stations with conveyor belts and modest exhaust stacks glowing warmly. Natural gas 2.9 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a dam and spillway in a valley in the mid-ground, floodlit. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single small conventional plant with a single stack near the brown coal complex. TIME: 1 AM, completely dark sky — deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy cloud cover at 66% blocking stars. All structures lit only by artificial light: sodium streetlamps cast amber pools on access roads, control rooms glow with blue-white fluorescent light through windows, red aviation warning lights pulse atop turbine nacelles and cooling towers. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy — steam from cooling towers drifts across the scene mixing with low clouds. Temperature 12°C: lush early-June vegetation rendered in dark greens barely visible in the artificial light, dew glistening on grass blades in foreground lamp-light. Wind at 19.5 km/h animates tree branches and turbine blades with dynamic motion blur. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette dominated by deep indigo, amber, and warm industrial orange, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered mist and steam. Meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with internal ribbing, aluminium-clad CCGT stacks. The scene feels monumental and contemplative — an industrial nocturne worthy of Caspar David Friedrich reimagined for the energy transition. No text, no labels.