Strong overnight wind and persistent coal and gas baseload meet 43.6 GW demand under overcast midnight skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
61%
Renewable share
22.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.8 GW
Total generation
+2.2 GW
Net export
114.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.4°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
271
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.1 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of massive three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling farmland, red aviation lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 4.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a black sea; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as three enormous hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights, plus a lignite conveyor and open-pit silhouette; natural gas 5.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.5 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and stockpile visible; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip CHP facility with a modest stack and warm amber-lit building; hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway gleaming faintly in the lower-left corner. The sky is completely black with heavy 99% overcast — no stars, no moon, no twilight whatsoever — a deep oppressive blanket of cloud faintly reflecting the orange industrial glow below, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 7°C in mid-May: bare-branched hedgerows with only the earliest spring leaf buds, damp grass, mist hugging low ground. Light wind barely stirs the scene at ground level despite turbines spinning high above. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam and mist — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, exhaust stack, and electrical substation. No text, no labels.