Wind, brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a tight late-night grid requiring 10 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 20%
47%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.1 GW
Total generation
-10.1 GW
Net import
118.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
40.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by amber industrial floodlights; hard coal 6.5 GW sits just right of centre as a large power station with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts, and tall chimneys trailing thin smoke; natural gas 7.3 GW appears centre-right as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with slim steel exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer; wind onshore 12.4 GW spans the right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a green-lit hopper and modest chimney near the coal station; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in the mid-ground valley with white spillway water catching artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, with 40 % cloud cover creating patches of faintly lighter dark grey among stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — a high-price hour — with dense industrial haze pooling in the lowlands. Early spring vegetation: bare branches with the first tiny leaf buds, dormant brown grass, patches of cold mud. Temperature around 8 °C conveyed by faint ground mist. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along an access road winding between the plants. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede into the distance, symbolising import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigo, coal-black, furnace orange, and steam white — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.