Brown coal and gas anchor a 34.4 GW supply as overcast skies and moderate wind force 7.1 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 12%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 22%
53%
Renewable share
8.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.3 GW
Solar
34.4 GW
Total generation
-7.1 GW
Net import
116.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°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
324
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky; natural gas 5.4 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 4.9 GW fills the centre as a cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a distant ridge; solar 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle hillside, reflecting only the flat grey light with no sunlight; wind offshore 3.8 GW is visible in the far right background as a row of offshore turbines standing on a grey North Sea horizon; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest smokestack and steam rising near the centre; hard coal 3.1 GW is rendered as a coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belt in the right middle ground; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at far right. Time of day is dawn at 06:00 in late May: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest band of pale pre-dawn luminance along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, everything lit in cold diffuse twilight. Cloud cover is total — a low oppressive ceiling of uniform stratiform cloud presses down on the landscape, lending a heavy, brooding atmosphere consistent with a high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 10.6°C; vegetation is lush spring green but muted in the dim light, grass damp with dew. Wind is light, turbine blades turning gently. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, ochres, and muted greens, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with mist pooling in valleys. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, PV panel aluminium frames. The overall mood is industrially sublime — human infrastructure vast against an indifferent grey dawn. No text, no labels.