Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate a tight evening grid requiring 17.6 GW net imports under calm, clear skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 32%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 27%
25%
Renewable share
4.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-17.6 GW
Net import
165.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
496
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.5 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers exhaling thick white steam plumes into the night; natural gas 12.6 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by amber industrial floodlights; hard coal 6.5 GW appears centre-right as a dark hulking coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a single large smokestack; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired facility with a conical fuel silo and low steam vent at right-centre; wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at far right, their aviation warning lights blinking red; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by tiny red blinking lights on the far horizon line; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure with spillway at the far right edge, illuminated by a single sodium lamp. The sky is completely dark — deep black to navy, no twilight, no glow on the horizon — with a scattering of cold stars visible through perfectly clear air, zero cloud cover. The scene is lit entirely by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps along an access road, harsh white floodlights on the industrial complexes, glowing furnace mouths casting reddish reflections on nearby structures. Early spring vegetation is sparse — bare birch and alder branches, pale brown dormant grass, patches of residual frost on the ground reflecting lamplight. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a dense industrial haze pooling at ground level around the thermal plants, conveying a sense of high energy cost. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette dominated by deep blacks, warm sodium oranges, furnace reds, and cold steel blues; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro lighting; atmospheric depth receding from the foreground coal plant to the distant wind turbines. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with internal steam condensation visible, CCGT gas turbine exhaust stacks with heat distortion. No text, no labels.