Brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a 28.2 GW domestic supply while 28.9 GW net imports cover windless evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 7%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 28%
32%
Renewable share
1.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
28.2 GW
Total generation
-29.0 GW
Net import
355.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 22.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
462
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
The Spike
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power station with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky, their concrete shells glowing faintly orange from sodium floodlights below; natural gas 7.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and illuminated turbine halls; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a heavy industrial block with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and a single wide chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with wood-chip storage domes and modest stacks, lit by facility lights; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, barely visible under artificial light with no sunshine whatsoever; hydro 1.9 GW shows as a concrete dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far right middle ground; wind onshore 0.8 GW is a pair of three-blade turbines on distant hills, their rotors completely still in the dead calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking at the nacelle tops. The sky is completely dark at 20:00 in June, deep navy-black with heavy 100 percent overcast — no stars, no twilight glow, an oppressive low ceiling of clouds pressing down. The atmosphere feels dense and stifling, reflecting the extreme 355 EUR/MWh price: haze and industrial steam merge with the cloud base, sodium and mercury-vapour lights cast harsh pools of amber and blue-white across the industrial landscape. Summer vegetation — full leafy trees and tall green grass — is dimly visible in the foreground margins. The entire scene is painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the pitch-dark sky, atmospheric depth with layers of steam and haze receding into blackness, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.