Brown coal, gas, and imports dominate Germany's midnight grid as near-calm winds push prices above 118 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
37%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.1 GW
Total generation
-11.3 GW
Net import
118.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
41% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
430
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.4 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; wind onshore 4.8 GW appears in the right-centre as a row of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air, with red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered centre-right as a medium-scale wood-fired plant with a rectangular boiler building and a single squat chimney trailing grey smoke; hard coal 3.4 GW sits to the right as a coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a pair of rectangular cooling towers; hydro 1.3 GW appears at the far right as a small concrete dam with water cascading under floodlight glow; wind offshore 0.2 GW is a faint silhouette of a single offshore turbine barely visible on a distant dark horizon. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, a scattering of cold stars visible through 41% broken cloud cover. Early spring setting: bare branches on scattered trees just beginning to bud, frost on grass, temperature near 5°C conveyed by mist pooling low along the ground. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a thick industrial haze hangs over the scene, sodium-orange light reflecting off steam and low clouds, creating a claustrophobic canopy. High-voltage transmission pylons with bundled cables march across the middle ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep black sky and the fiery industrial glow, atmospheric depth with layers of mist and smoke, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower surface texture, and steel lattice structure. No text, no labels.