Brown coal, gas, hard coal, and moderate wind supply a tight grid requiring ~20.8 GW net imports at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 21%
50%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
35.2 GW
Total generation
-20.8 GW
Net import
143.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.8°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the cold air; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin grey exhaust; hard coal 4.8 GW sits centre-right as a blocky coal-fired plant with rectangular chimneys and a visible coal conveyor belt; wind onshore 10.3 GW spans the right third as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across a flat plain, their blades barely rotating in near-still air; wind offshore 1.6 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a timber-framed fuel yard and a single smokestack centre-background; hydro 1.3 GW shows as a small concrete dam and penstock nestled in low hills at the far left background; solar 0.2 GW is absent from the scene. Time of day is pre-dawn, 06:00 in early April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, stars still faintly visible overhead. The landscape is flat northern German terrain with bare deciduous trees, frost-covered brown grass, and patches of lingering ice on puddles. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds of industrial steam merge with a brooding, weighty sky pressing down on the scene. Temperature near freezing is shown by visible breath-like condensation from cooling towers and frost riming metal structures. Sodium-orange streetlights and industrial floodlights illuminate the power stations from below. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, steel-grey, burnt sienna, and amber; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant turbines; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry, and coal conveyor infrastructure. The scene conveys the weight of industrial civilization sustaining itself through a cold dark morning. No text, no labels.