Wind and coal jointly anchor a midnight grid drawing 1.4 GW of net imports at an elevated 106 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 19%
56%
Renewable share
14.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.5 GW
Total generation
-1.4 GW
Net import
106.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
50% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a sprawling lignite power complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white steam into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 4.7 GW sits just right of centre as two tall rectangular boiler houses with chimney stacks trailing grey smoke, their brick facades glowing under harsh industrial floodlights; natural gas 4.1 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a sleek turbine hall, silvery under arc lighting; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip fired plant with a dome-shaped storage silo and a modest smokestack, warm amber light spilling from its loading bay; wind onshore 12.2 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested in the far distance as a line of turbines on the horizon with faint red lights above a dark sea; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock at far right, with water faintly gleaming under a single floodlight. The sky is entirely black with no twilight or glow—it is midnight in early April, approximately 5 °C, with half the sky bearing indistinct low clouds barely visible against the darkness. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—a faint industrial haze hangs in the air, diffusing the artificial lights into halos. Sparse early-spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with just the first pale buds, damp brown-green fields. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes but depicting a meticulous modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.