Brown coal and onshore wind lead generation while 12.9 GW net imports cover overnight demand at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 26%
47%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
26.8 GW
Total generation
-12.9 GW
Net import
123.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
370
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black sky; onshore wind 6.9 GW fills the right third as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in near-calm air, lit faintly by red aviation warning lights; natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin grey streams; biomass 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a wood-chip-fed industrial facility with a squat chimney and warm orange glow from loading bays; hard coal 2.3 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional station with a single tall smokestack; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam spillway in the far middle distance, illuminated by floodlights reflecting on dark water; offshore wind 0.3 GW appears as a faint cluster of tiny blinking lights on the far horizon line. The time is 2 AM — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 100% overcast obscuring all stars, creating a low oppressive ceiling that traps and reflects the sodium-orange industrial light from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and dense, conveying high electricity prices. Temperature is mild at 15°C; lush green deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground, early-summer vegetation, dampened by humidity. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber on an access road in the near foreground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of blacks, dark blues, burnt oranges, and industrial yellows — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and steam layering into darkness, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.