Brown coal, gas, and wind anchor a 31.7 GW supply against 40.8 GW demand, requiring 9.1 GW net imports at high price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 29%
42%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
31.7 GW
Total generation
-9.1 GW
Net import
126.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
410
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy overcast; natural gas 5.7 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; wind onshore 6.4 GW spans the centre-right as a line of roughly a dozen three-blade turbines on lattice towers across rolling farmland, rotors turning slowly in light wind; hard coal 3.7 GW appears behind the gas plant as a dark industrial block with a single large stack; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of smaller wood-chip-fired boiler buildings with modest chimneys and warm amber glow from furnace openings; wind offshore 1.2 GW is faintly suggested on the far-right horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes beyond a distant ridge; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock structure in the lower right foreground near a dark stream. Solar is entirely absent — no panels, no sun. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a deep blue-grey pre-dawn palette at 05:00, with only the faintest pale luminance along the eastern horizon hinting at distant sunrise still below the hills; the rest of the sky is near-black. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the 126.5 EUR/MWh price — low-hanging clouds press down on the industrial landscape. Temperature is 3°C: frost rims the edges of early-spring grass, bare branches on scattered deciduous trees just beginning to bud, breath-vapour-cold air. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along a road in the foreground; lit windows glow in a small village nestled between the power stations. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered mist between foreground and background structures, chiaroscuro between warm industrial glow and cold dark sky — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.