Brown coal and natural gas dominate at 9.8 GW each as cold, calm, overcast conditions suppress renewables and drive 20.2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 1%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 27%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 27%
33%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-20.2 GW
Net import
148.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
451
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 9.8 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin hot plumes; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a dark industrial complex with rectangular boiler houses and conveyor belts feeding stockpiles; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a broad chimney and stacked timber in the mid-ground; wind onshore 4.2 GW stands as a line of three-blade turbines on low hills in the right background, rotors barely turning in still air; wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey sea inlet; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at far right; solar 0.4 GW is represented by a tiny cluster of aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels on a rooftop, dark and unlit, receiving no sunlight. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale band of pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon, no direct sun visible, all structures lit by warm sodium-orange industrial lighting and glowing plant windows. Temperature is 1°C — frost dusts the ground and bare early-spring trees, dormant brown grass, patches of lingering snow. Cloud cover is total: a low, heavy, uniform overcast ceiling pressing down oppressively, consistent with a high electricity price atmosphere. Wind is nearly still — no motion in vegetation, smoke and steam rise vertically. 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 — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, warm ambers, and ashen greys, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark predawn sky. Meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology: three-blade rotor profiles with nacelles, lattice steel towers, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower shells with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels, no people.