Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate nighttime generation as low wind and imports fill a 12.2 GW gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 30%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 28%
29%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.9 GW
Total generation
-12.2 GW
Net import
116.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
474
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the night sky; natural gas 10.2 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing orange sodium lighting around their turbine halls; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts visible under industrial floodlights; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a wood-fired CHP plant with a moderate stack and stacked timber visible in a lit yard; onshore wind 3.4 GW occupies the right background as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a low ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking faintly, rotors turning very slowly in light wind; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far right with illuminated spillway; offshore wind 0.7 GW is a barely visible pair of turbines on a distant dark horizon line. The scene is set at 1 AM on a clear, cold April night — the sky is completely black with scattered stars and no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price. The ground shows early spring — bare soil, short pale-green grass, leafless birch trees along a canal. A cool mist clings to the ground around the cooling towers. All light in the scene comes from artificial sources: sodium-orange industrial lamps, red warning beacons, glowing furnace windows, and the faint amber reflection on the steam plumes from below. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into darkness — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.