Nighttime import-dependent grid: onshore wind leads at 12.1 GW, brown coal and gas backfill, zero solar, price elevated at 130 EUR/MWh.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.0 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
130.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 4.8 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin translucent heat shimmer; hard coal 2.6 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single tall smokestack and a visible coal conveyor belt; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered centre-right as a series of medium-sized wood-chip-fired plants with ribbed metal silos and squat chimneys trailing faint grey exhaust; hydro 1.3 GW appears in the far right background as a small concrete dam with spillway cutting through a forested valley; wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible on the distant horizon as a handful of turbines rising from a dark sea line. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-to-black overcast ceiling with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow; the scene is lit entirely by industrial sodium-orange and cool-white facility lighting, reflections on wet surfaces from a humid spring night. Lush May vegetation — fresh green leaves on nearby deciduous trees, thick grass — softened in the darkness. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, haze trapped beneath low clouds suggesting high energy costs. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the artificial lights and surrounding blackness, atmospheric depth achieved through layered mist and diminishing detail, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib pattern, and gas-plant exhaust detail. No text, no labels.