Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate as weak wind and heavy overcast drive 20 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 17%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 30%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 23%
32%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
43.6 GW
Total generation
-20.2 GW
Net import
200.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.4°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
445
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.1 GW occupies the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers venting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; natural gas 13.2 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks releasing shimmering heat haze; hard coal 6.2 GW appears centre-right as a coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a tall chimney trailing pale smoke; solar 7.3 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the thick overcast, angled southward on ground-mounted racks; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a compact smokestack and steam wisps; wind onshore 1.3 GW is shown as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.2 GW is a modest run-of-river weir with foaming water in the far right middle distance; wind offshore 0.1 GW is a single barely visible turbine silhouette on the far horizon. TIME AND LIGHT: 08:00 April morning, full daylight but deeply overcast at 89% cloud cover — flat, diffuse, grey-white illumination with almost no shadows, the sky a uniform heavy blanket of stratocumulus pressing low over the landscape. WEATHER AND SEASON: early spring, temperature 3.4°C, bare deciduous trees with the faintest green buds, patches of frost on brown grass, breath-mist visible near any human figures. Wind barely stirs — no motion in flags or vegetation. ATMOSPHERE: oppressive, heavy, still air suggesting high electricity prices — a weighty, brooding quality to the sky, industrial haze pooling in the river valley, the horizon blurred. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth meeting Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich muted earth tones, cool blue-greys, visible confident brushwork, luminous treatment of steam and cloud. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. The composition reads as a panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels, no UI elements.