Gas, brown coal, and imports dominate a nighttime grid with minimal wind and no solar.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 30%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 27%
32%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.4 GW
Total generation
-21.8 GW
Net import
215.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
448
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick pale steam into a black night sky; natural gas 8.1 GW fills the centre-left as two tall CCGT exhaust stacks with heat-shimmer halos and compact turbine halls lit by sodium-orange floodlights; hard coal 3.0 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single squat chimney and a glowing conveyor belt of fuel; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with cylindrical digesters and small stacks emitting faint vapour, positioned right of centre; wind onshore 2.2 GW stands in the right background as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking softly, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of tiny red lights on the far-right horizon beyond a dark river; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a modest dam structure in the far right foreground with illuminated spillway water catching floodlight. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no sky glow — a deep ink-navy dome with faint stars partially obscured by industrial steam plumes. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme electricity price — a thick industrial haze hangs low, trapping the amber sodium light in a claustrophobic canopy. Late-spring vegetation — lush deciduous trees in full dark-green leaf — lines the middle ground but is barely visible, caught only in the edges of artificial light. A wide river in the foreground reflects the orange glow of the power stations. Temperature is mild at 17°C; the air feels still and warm. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the pitch-dark sky and the blazing industrial light, atmospheric depth created by layered steam and haze. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles, aluminium cooling tower lattice, CCGT gas turbine housings. The scene conveys the vast scale of thermal generation labouring through a windless spring night. No text, no labels.