Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a cold, dark pre-dawn hour with 13 GW of net imports required.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 27%
35%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.3 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
119.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-1.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
448
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.5 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 sky; natural gas 8.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thinner plumes; hard coal 6.2 GW appears centre-right as a large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a tall chimney; wind onshore 5.7 GW occupies the right background as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers slowly turning on a ridge; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a dark horizon line at far right; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a medium industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and moderate stack near the coal station; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible at far left beside a frozen river. Time is 05:00 in early April — the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight, no sun glow, only the faintest pale luminescence at the eastern horizon. No solar panels anywhere. Temperature is below zero: frost coats the bare branches of leafless trees, ice edges the river, patches of old snow linger on the ground. Cloud cover at 73% renders the sky heavy and oppressive, pressing down on the industrial landscape, reinforcing the high electricity price atmosphere. Wind is light — turbine blades rotate slowly. Sodium-orange streetlights and warm industrial glow from plant windows illuminate the foreground. Steam and smoke from the thermal plants merge with the overcast, creating a dense, layered atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.