Brown coal and gas dominate as overcast skies, light winds, and high imports drive prices to 143.6 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 7%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 26%
41%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
34.2 GW
Total generation
-20.4 GW
Net import
143.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
402
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the heavy overcast; natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting pale heat shimmer; wind onshore 5.5 GW spans the right third as a row of seven three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a low ridge; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a domed fuel silo and a modest smokestack trailing thin blue smoke; hard coal 3.7 GW sits behind the lignite complex as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belt; solar 2.3 GW is represented by a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the clouds, producing almost nothing; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir in the lower-right with modest white water; wind offshore 0.6 GW is a faint cluster of turbines barely visible on a distant grey horizon line. TIME AND LIGHT: early pre-dawn at 06:00 in May — the sky is a deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones, everything lit by cold diffuse ambient light and the orange sodium glow of industrial facility lights. WEATHER: 7°C cool spring morning, 96% overcast ceiling pressing low, nearly still air with only the slightest movement in grass and treetops, dew on surfaces. ATMOSPHERE: oppressively heavy low clouds suggesting the high electricity price — the sky feels weighty, claustrophobic, dense with moisture. Spring vegetation is fresh green but muted by the grey light; birch and linden trees in early leaf along a river valley. Foreground shows damp plowed fields and a gravel access road with puddles reflecting the sodium lights. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour in deep blues, slate greys, umber browns, and warm industrial oranges; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric perspective with mist softening the distant turbines; meticulous engineering detail on every installation — turbine nacelle housings, blade pitch mechanisms, cooling tower parabolic profiles, conveyor gantries, transformer yards with insulators. The painting conveys industrial sublime — humanity's vast energy infrastructure set against an indifferent grey dawn. No text, no labels, no human figures.