Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as overcast skies and light winds drive high imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 20%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 21%
46%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
37.5 GW
Total generation
-19.3 GW
Net import
155.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 104.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
370
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze; solar 7.3 GW appears centre-right as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and reflective under diffuse grey light with no direct sun visible; hard coal 5.1 GW stands behind the solar field as a coal-fired station with a single large stack trailing a brown-tinged plume; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded woodchip silo and low smokestack amid bare early-spring trees on the right; wind onshore 3.5 GW appears as a line of seven three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the right background, rotors turning slowly in light wind; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam visible in a river valley in the far right distance; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, rendered as a heavy oppressive ceiling of layered grey stratus pressing down, with a faint orange-red glow along the lower western horizon indicating dusk at 18:00 in April—the upper sky darkening to deep slate blue. The landscape is early spring central Germany: pale green grass beginning to emerge, bare deciduous trees with first buds, ploughed brown fields. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, matching the 155.3 EUR/MWh price—thick humid air, muted colours, industrial haze blending with low clouds. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, warm amber industrial light contrasting against cool grey-blue twilight, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower geometries, and panel arrays. No text, no labels.