Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a 30.8 GW domestic supply requiring ~19.6 GW net imports at nightfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 27%
37%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.8 GW
Total generation
-19.6 GW
Net import
136.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
430
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into darkness, flanked by conveyor belts and glowing furnace mouths; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting shimmering heat haze, lit by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a single large power station with a square chimney and red aviation warning lights blinking; wind onshore 4.0 GW occupies the right portion of the mid-ground as a sparse line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light wind, barely visible against the black sky; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by distant tiny red navigation lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.7 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and a single modest stack emitting pale vapour, positioned between the gas plant and the coal station; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure in the lower-right foreground with water gleaming under artificial floodlights. The sky is completely black to deep navy, 100% cloud cover erasing all stars and moon, no twilight glow whatsoever — it is 9 PM in April. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 136.7 EUR/MWh price: a thick, low ceiling of cloud traps the industrial light, casting an amber-grey pall over everything. Spring vegetation — budding deciduous trees, fresh grass — is barely visible in patches of sodium light, temperature around 8°C suggested by a faint mist clinging to the ground. The entire composition is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between inky darkness and the warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth created by layered smoke and steam receding into the murk. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, aluminium nacelle housings, reinforced concrete cooling towers with visible ribbing, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. No text, no labels.