Brown coal and wind anchor a 40.3 GW supply as cold overcast weather drives 6.5 GW of net imports at 91.6 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 22%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 23%
58%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.8 GW
Solar
40.3 GW
Total generation
-6.5 GW
Net import
91.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.7°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
311
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, their bases lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.7 GW appears just right of centre as a large power station with rectangular stacks and conveyor belts under amber spotlights; natural gas 2.6 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin vapour trail, positioned between the coal plants; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed digester and a squat chimney emitting faint grey smoke; wind onshore 6.1 GW fills the right quarter as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning moderately in 15.6 km/h wind; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested by additional turbines fading into the distant right horizon over flat terrain; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam structure barely visible at far right; solar 8.8 GW is represented only as rows of dark, inactive aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in a field at centre-right, catching no light whatsoever under the heavy overcast — no sunshine, no reflections. The time is 05:00 pre-dawn: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest hint of pale light at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky. The sky is 100% overcast with low, heavy, oppressive clouds pressing down, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is near freezing: bare deciduous trees with frost on branches, patches of frost on the ground, cold breath of steam from every stack. The landscape is flat north-German lowland. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark colour palette of indigo, slate grey, burnt umber, and sodium orange; visible thick brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack; the scene feels monumental and brooding, a masterwork painting of the industrial landscape at the edge of night. No text, no labels.