Brown coal, hard coal, and gas dominate early-morning generation as cold temperatures and minimal solar drive 20 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 1%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 17%
Brown coal 23%
43%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
-20.1 GW
Net import
149.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.4°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
396
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the cold air; hard coal 6.1 GW appears just right of centre as a large coal-fired power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 6.5 GW occupies the centre-left as compact CCGT units with polished exhaust stacks emitting thin pale plumes; wind onshore 8.0 GW spans the right third as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light wind across rolling farmland; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines along a far horizon line; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a medium-scale industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and modest stack near the coal plants; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with water cascading in the far right background; solar 0.2 GW is represented only by a few dormant aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels in a frosted field, utterly dark and unlit. Time of day: pre-dawn at 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. Temperature near freezing: frost coats the grass and bare deciduous branches, breath-like mist hangs low over fields, patches of ice glint under sodium-orange industrial lighting from the power stations. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a dense haze of steam and condensation presses down from the cooling towers, blending with low ground fog. Wind is light, turbine blades rotating slowly. The landscape is flat central German terrain with plowed fields and sparse early-spring vegetation, still brown and dormant. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, chiaroscuro interplay between warm industrial sodium light and cold pre-dawn blue. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT turbine housings, aluminium PV frames. No text, no labels.