Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a cold, windless night requiring 13.4 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 35%
23%
Renewable share
2.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-13.4 GW
Net import
140.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
533
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black sky; natural gas 9.9 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing orange turbine halls; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a coal-fired station with a large boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single square cooling tower venting steam; biomass 4.3 GW sits to the right as a mid-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack with faint pale exhaust; wind offshore 1.5 GW appears as a distant row of faintly lit turbines on the far-right horizon, rotors barely turning; wind onshore 1.2 GW shows as two or three tall three-blade turbines on a low ridge, nearly still; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure with a thin ribbon of water visible in the lower-right foreground, illuminated by a single sodium floodlight. Time is 23:00 — completely dark night, deep black sky with no stars visible through 100% overcast, no twilight, no sky glow. All structures lit only by harsh sodium-orange industrial lighting, control-room windows glowing, and red aviation warning lights on chimneys and turbine nacelles. The landscape is flat northern German terrain with bare late-winter trees, frost-dusted brown fields, near-freezing temperature conveyed by visible breath-like condensation around lit walkways. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy — thick low clouds trapping the amber glow of industry, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial fire-glow and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into coal-smoke haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and conveyor gantry. No text, no labels.