Brown coal, wind, and gas anchor overnight generation as 9.4 GW net imports cover a cold, windswept spring night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 22%
49%
Renewable share
9.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.2 GW
Total generation
-9.4 GW
Net import
115.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.5 GW dominates the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into blackness, their bases glowing orange from sodium floodlights illuminating the lignite power station; natural gas 5.1 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, lit by industrial spotlights; hard coal 3.2 GW appears centre-right as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts visible under floodlight; wind onshore 7.6 GW spans the right third of the scene as a long row of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching into the distance across dark rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible North Sea coastline; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and modest smokestack near the coal station; hydro 1.3 GW is represented by a small dam structure with spillway in the mid-ground valley, lit by a single security light. The sky is completely black with 99% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a deep oppressive overcast ceiling pressing down, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is 3.6°C: sparse early spring vegetation, bare branches on some trees, patches of frost on the ground reflecting sodium light. Wind at 12.9 km/h stirs the turbine blades at moderate rotation and bends the steam plumes sideways. The entire scene is illuminated only by artificial light — warm sodium orange, cool LED white on industrial structures — casting long shadows across damp fields. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth through layered mist and industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and power line insulator. No text, no labels.