Brown coal, gas, and imports fill a 19.3 GW gap as heat drives demand and solar fades at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 8%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
50%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.6 GW
Solar
33.2 GW
Total generation
-19.3 GW
Net import
201.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
57.0% / 143.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
338
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the oppressive sky; natural gas 6.7 GW occupies the center-left as a row of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat; wind onshore 5.9 GW appears across the center as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers barely turning in near-still air; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered center-right as a modest wood-fired power station with a tall rectangular stack and conveyor belts of woodchip fuel; hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a dark industrial coal plant with conveyor gantries and a single large smokestack to the right of center; solar 2.6 GW is shown as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last orange remnants of light in the right foreground; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as distant turbines on the far-right horizon standing in a hazy sea; hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete dam structure partially visible in the far background right with water cascading. Time is 20:00 in June — late dusk, the sky still holds a low band of deep copper-orange along the western horizon but the upper sky is a heavy, dark blue-grey pressing down with 57% cloud cover rendered as thick cumulus formations. The atmosphere is oppressive and sultry, conveying extreme summer heat at 32°C — the air itself seems to shimmer. Vegetation is lush deep-green midsummer foliage but wilting slightly in the heat. The landscape is flat central German terrain. Sodium streetlights are beginning to flicker on along a road in the foreground. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines stretch across the entire scene, symbolizing the heavy import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, saturated colour with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the darkening sky. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic geometry, PV panel grid patterns. The mood is heavy and grand, an industrial sublime. No text, no labels.