Gas and brown coal lead thin domestic output; massive net imports cover half of evening demand under calm, overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 1%
Biomass 18%
Hydro 9%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 27%
38%
Renewable share
2.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
22.6 GW
Total generation
-28.4 GW
Net import
189.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
414
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plant blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by floodlights; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as an industrial wood-chip power station with a tall square chimney and conveyor belts, warmly lit; hydro 1.9 GW is rendered as a concrete dam spillway in the right-centre middle ground with white water cascading under spotlights; wind onshore 1.7 GW appears as a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, rotors barely turning, red aviation lights blinking; hard coal 1.6 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular stack behind the brown coal complex; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by faint red lights on the far horizon line. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — it is 21:00 in June, fully night. A thick 92% overcast blanket smothers any stars or moonlight. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 189.4 EUR/MWh price: haze and industrial steam merge into a brooding low ceiling. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C; lush green deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground, early-summer foliage, damp and still in near-windless air. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools along a road in the foreground. Distant transmission pylons carry high-voltage lines receding into murky darkness, hinting at the enormous import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of umber, Prussian blue, and amber, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.