Strong wind and heavy lignite anchor overnight generation as Germany draws slight net imports at an elevated price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
61%
Renewable share
23.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.8 GW
Total generation
-1.2 GW
Net import
95.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
28% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
285
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling late-winter farmland, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a dark sea; brown coal 10.1 GW fills the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible; hard coal 4.1 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and red warning lights; natural gas 4.5 GW appears as two compact CCGT units in the left-centre with slim exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial facility with a modest smokestack and stacked woodchip piles near centre; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse in the mid-ground valley, water glinting under facility lights. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep navy to black, no twilight, no moon glow, a scattering of stars visible through 28% cloud cover that drifts in pale wisps. All structures lit only by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps, industrial floodlights, blinking red aviation lights atop turbine nacelles and chimney stacks. Temperature 1.3 °C: bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on brown fields, breath-like mist near ground level. ATMOSPHERE: oppressive and heavy — the elevated price conveyed through a low, dense industrial haze clinging to the horizon, the combined steam plumes merging into a brooding canopy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadow and orange-lit industrial glow, atmospheric depth achieved through successive planes of turbines receding into darkness. Meticulous engineering accuracy: visible nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling-tower reinforcement rings, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. No text, no labels.