Brown coal and gas anchor a 27 GW domestic supply as 25 GW of imports cover evening demand under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 4%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 29%
38%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.1 GW
Solar
27.1 GW
Total generation
-25.2 GW
Net import
144.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
424
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers issuing heavy white-grey steam plumes; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; biomass 4.6 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of squat industrial biomass boiler buildings with chimneys trailing thin smoke; hard coal 2.8 GW sits to the right as a smaller coal plant with a single cooling tower and conveyor belt; wind onshore 2.0 GW and offshore 1.2 GW are represented by a modest row of five three-blade turbines on a ridge in the far right background, blades turning slowly in light wind; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway at the far right edge; solar 1.1 GW is represented by a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground but reflecting only grey sky, no sunlight. Time is 19:00 in April — late dusk with a thin orange-red glow barely visible on the low western horizon, the sky above darkening rapidly to deep slate grey, full 100% cloud cover creating a heavy oppressive blanket with no breaks. Temperature 11.8°C: early spring vegetation, bare branches with first green buds on trees, damp grass. Light wind barely stirs the landscape. The atmosphere feels dense, heavy, and costly — thick industrial haze mingles with cloud. High-voltage transmission pylons stride across the middle ground carrying imported power. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich dark colour palette of umber, slate, ochre, and muted orange; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with layers of industrial haze receding into the gloom. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. The scene feels like a masterwork painting of the industrial landscape at twilight. No text, no labels.