Wind and brown coal anchor a tight nighttime grid requiring 6.1 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 20%
53%
Renewable share
13.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
-6.1 GW
Net import
135.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
34% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
323
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights illuminating the lignite power station's conveyors and boiler houses. Wind onshore 8.3 GW fills the centre-right as a broad ridge of tall three-blade turbines, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, nacelles and lattice towers faintly silhouetted. Wind offshore 5.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea, their warning beacons forming a dotted red arc. Natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer, their turbine halls illuminated by white industrial floodlights. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a smaller station with a single square cooling tower and coal conveyors, warmly lit. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed CHP facility with a modest smokestack and a steaming wood-chip pile, located in the middle ground. Hydro 1.4 GW is represented as a small concrete run-of-river dam with a faintly glowing powerhouse at the base of the ridge, water reflecting the artificial lights. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, scattered stars visible through 34% cloud cover in thin patches. The spring landscape shows fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees, barely visible under the artificial lighting. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—low haze clings to the ground, tinted amber by the industrial lighting, giving the air a dense, costly weight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower hyperbola, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.