Brown coal, gas, hard coal, and moderate wind supply a 49 GW nighttime load requiring ~11 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
49%
Renewable share
12.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.1 GW
Total generation
-10.8 GW
Net import
131.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
360
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the darkness, their concrete surfaces lit by banks of orange sodium floodlights; natural gas 6.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh industrial white lighting; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a gritty coal-fired station with conveyor belts, a single large smokestack, and glowing ash; wind onshore 8.9 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.0 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a row of turbines on the dark horizon over a barely visible sea; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-yard and a single stack with faint warm exhaust glow, nestled between the coal plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station at the bottom of the composition near a dark river reflecting the industrial lights. TIME: 23:00, completely dark — the sky is a deep near-black overcast with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever; all illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium streetlamps casting amber pools, industrial floodlights, and red warning beacons. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and oppressive, with a high-price tension expressed through a brooding, claustrophobic canopy of low clouds faintly catching the reflected industrial glow. Spring vegetation — fresh green deciduous trees and grass — is barely discernible in the sodium light at the edges. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnal sublime but applied to an industrial panorama — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layers of steam and mist, meticulous engineering detail on each turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack riveting. No text, no labels.