Wind, brown coal, and gas share generation as 13 GW of net imports cover nighttime demand under full cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
49%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.2 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
157.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
341
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.8 GW spans the right third of the scene as numerous three-blade turbines on lattice towers arrayed across rolling hills, their rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 2.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea. Brown coal 7.1 GW dominates the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes, lit from below by amber sodium lights from an industrial complex. Natural gas 7.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, warmly illuminated by facility floodlights. Hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station beside the lignite plant with a single square chimney and conveyor belts. Biomass 4.0 GW is depicted as a mid-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage area, glowing with interior light, positioned centre-right. Hydro 1.8 GW is a dam spillway in the middle distance, water catching faint reflected light. No solar panels anywhere — it is fully night. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars, creating a heavy oppressive overcast ceiling that presses down on the landscape, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. The air is warm and humid — lush green summer vegetation on the hillsides, leaves hanging still in nearly calm air. Sodium-orange and white industrial lighting casts pools of artificial glow across the facilities, reflecting off low clouds. The atmosphere is thick, slightly hazy, claustrophobic. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, deep colours, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the warm industrial glow below — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.