Brown coal and gas dominate overnight generation while 14.2 GW net imports bridge a wide supply gap at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 26%
43%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.9 GW
Total generation
-14.2 GW
Net import
125.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
33.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
392
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing orange turbine halls; hard coal 2.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of low industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and small chimneys, lit by sodium lamps; wind onshore 3.9 GW occupies the right middle-ground as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or canal reflection; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the right foreground with white cascading water caught by floodlights. Time is 04:00 — the sky is completely black with no twilight whatsoever, a deep navy-to-black vault with faint stars partially veiled by 33% cloud cover; all illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium-orange streetlights lining an access road, white floodlights on the cooling towers, red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and chimney stacks, warm yellow glows from plant control-room windows. The temperature is a cool 7°C late-spring night: fresh green foliage on trees barely visible in the sodium light, dew glistening on grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 125.3 EUR/MWh price — low haze clings to the ground between the plants, steam from the cooling towers spreads and flattens against an invisible inversion layer. No solar panels anywhere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of umber, Prussian blue, and cadmium orange; visible impasto brushwork in the steam clouds and water reflections; atmospheric depth created through layered industrial silhouettes receding into darkness; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and gas-stack flange. The mood is sublime and industrial, a nocturnal masterwork of the working landscape. No text, no labels.