Brown coal, wind, and solar lead generation as heavy imports cover a 24.4 GW gap at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 19%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
63%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.8 GW
Solar
35.1 GW
Total generation
-24.4 GW
Net import
146.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 49.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
254
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into an overcast sky; wind onshore 7.5 GW spans the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green hills, blades turning moderately in a 13 km/h breeze; solar 6.8 GW appears in the centre-left as large fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last faint amber glow from the low western horizon, their surfaces mostly dull under 89% cloud cover; natural gas 5.1 GW occupies the near-centre as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and small heat-shimmer plumes; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip fuel yard and a single smokestack with thin pale exhaust; hydro 2.1 GW is depicted as a concrete dam with spillway set into a forested valley in the mid-distance; wind offshore 1.8 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines standing in a grey sea; hard coal 1.7 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a single large chimney and coal conveyor belts near the lignite complex. The sky is a heavy, oppressive blanket of 89% grey-to-charcoal cloud, the lower western horizon showing only a thin strip of deep orange-red dusk glow rapidly fading — the upper sky is already deep slate-blue transitioning toward night. Vegetation is lush mid-June green, meadows and deciduous trees in full leaf at 16°C. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive, the thick cloud pressing down. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV module frame. No text, no labels.