Lignite and gas anchor a 32.5 GW domestic supply against 57.5 GW demand, requiring 25 GW net imports under heavy overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 7%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 23%
48%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
32.5 GW
Total generation
-25.0 GW
Net import
162.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 15.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
352
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 6.6 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a row of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the centre, their red aviation warning lights blinking against a black sky, rotors turning slowly in light wind; biomass 4.0 GW sits centre-right as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single modest smokestack, warmly lit from within; wind offshore 3.4 GW is suggested in the far right background as distant turbines standing in dark water, visible only by their red beacon lights; hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station behind the lignite complex with a single square cooling tower and conveyor gantry; solar 2.3 GW is rendered as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground reflecting only the dim artificial light, catching no sunlight whatsoever; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam structure at the far right edge with water cascading through illuminated spillways. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — it is 20:00 in mid-June under 94% cloud cover so the clouds are a barely visible dense grey ceiling lit faintly from below by industrial lights. The air feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting 162.4 EUR/MWh electricity prices. Summer vegetation — lush green deciduous trees and tall grass — is faintly visible in patches of artificial light, temperature 23°C conveyed by warm humid haze around the cooling towers. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze and layered distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometries, lattice tower structures, hyperbolic cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust stack details. The composition evokes a masterwork industrial nocturne, luminous and brooding. No text, no labels.