Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate as calm, overcast night conditions eliminate solar and suppress wind output.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 31%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 27%
26%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.4 GW
Total generation
-23.3 GW
Net import
155.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
490
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 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 dark sky; natural gas 10.0 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks glowing with orange flare light; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a blocky industrial coal plant with conveyor belts and a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed power plant with a modest stack and warm amber-lit warehouse structures in the right-centre; wind onshore 2.2 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a low ridge at the far right, rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far background right; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a faint silhouette of one or two turbines on a distant dark horizon line. Time is 21:00 in mid-April: the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with total overcast—no stars, no moon, no twilight glow—only heavy low clouds faintly lit from below by the orange sodium lights of the industrial facilities. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, suggesting expensive electricity—haze and low cloud press down on the landscape. Spring vegetation is present: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees are faintly visible in the artificial light, with temperature around 14°C suggesting mild dampness. The air is nearly still, no motion in trees or flags. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective with industrial haze—yet every engineering detail is meticulous: lattice tower structures, nacelle housings, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometries. The scene conveys a brooding nocturnal industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.