Gas, brown coal, and imports dominate as calm, overcast night leaves wind and solar unable to meet 57 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 27%
34%
Renewable share
5.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.2 GW
Total generation
-21.8 GW
Net import
148.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
442
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 10.0 GW fills the centre as a sprawling CCGT complex with tall slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze, illuminated by banks of industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single large stack and conveyor belts visible under spotlights; biomass 4.6 GW sits in the right-centre as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with squat chimneys and glowing furnace windows; wind onshore 3.7 GW and wind offshore 2.3 GW appear together at the far right as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors barely turning, with red aircraft warning lights blinking; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway lights reflected in dark water at the far right edge. TIME: 21:00 in mid-April, fully dark — a deep black-navy sky with no twilight glow, 96% cloud cover hiding all stars, a heavy overcast ceiling pressing down oppressively. The landscape is a broad German river valley with gentle spring-green hills barely visible in ambient industrial glow. Temperature 13.9°C: light mist drifts at ground level. The atmosphere is heavy and close, conveying the weight of a 148 EUR/MWh price — an oppressive industrial nightscape. Sodium-orange and harsh white industrial lighting casts dramatic reflections on wet roads and the river surface. No solar panels visible anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric depth receding into hazy darkness — yet every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, CCGT stack, and conveyor belt is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.