Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a calm, windless night requiring 14.6 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 29%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 30%
26%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.0 GW
Total generation
-14.6 GW
Net import
108.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
504
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a sprawling lignite complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the black sky, conveyor belts and glowing coal bunkers visible below; natural gas 8.6 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze, lit by sodium-orange floodlights; hard coal 4.8 GW appears centre-right as a classical coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and rectangular boiler house, red warning lights on top; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of smaller industrial plants with rounded storage silos and wood-chip piles, warm amber light spilling from open loading bays; onshore wind 1.7 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the right background, rotors nearly motionless in the dead-calm air, aviation warning lights blinking red; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a concrete dam structure in the far right distance with a faint white cascade; offshore wind 0.4 GW is a single distant turbine silhouette barely visible at the far horizon line. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no moon, no twilight, 84% cloud cover rendered as an oppressive low overcast ceiling faintly reflecting the industrial glow below in sickly orange-grey tones. Temperature is a mild 9.5°C with early spring grass and bare-budding deciduous trees in the foreground, damp ground reflecting puddles of amber light. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, conveying the elevated price and tight supply conditions. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the pitch-dark sky and the glowing industrial installations, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant structures, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.