Brown coal and wind lead generation while ~14.8 GW net imports cover a nighttime supply gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
48%
Renewable share
10.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.2 GW
Total generation
-14.9 GW
Net import
144.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into blackness; wind onshore 6.6 GW fills the centre-right as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning slowly; natural gas 6.1 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin grey plumes; hard coal 4.1 GW stands behind the lignite station as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber yard and low chimney, lit by amber floodlights; wind offshore 4.1 GW appears in the far right distance as ghostly turbines standing in dark water, their red aviation warning lights blinking; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure in the far background with water cascading under floodlight. Scene set at 22:00 in May — completely dark sky, deep navy-to-black, 100% cloud cover so no stars or moon visible, heavy oppressive overcast ceiling reflecting a faint industrial orange glow from below. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber on wet roads. Spring vegetation — fresh green deciduous trees and meadow grass — visible only where light catches them. A mood of industrial weight and tension reflecting the high 144.7 EUR/MWh price: the atmosphere feels dense, humid, pressing down. Temperature 10°C — slight mist hugging the ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric perspective fading into murky distance — yet every engineering detail rendered precisely: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium transformer housings, concrete cooling tower shells with visible ribbing, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels.