Brown coal, gas, and wind anchor overnight generation as large net imports fill a 14.5 GW gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 24%
42%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
-14.4 GW
Net import
146.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
391
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lights against a black sky; natural gas 6.7 GW occupies the centre-left as two modern CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with interior fluorescent light; wind onshore 5.3 GW fills the centre-right as a line of eight three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a low ridge, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles, blades turning slowly; hard coal 2.8 GW appears at the far left as a compact plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt silhouetted against facility lighting; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered centre-background as a medium industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and small chimney emitting faint vapour, warmly lit; hydro 1.7 GW appears far right as a concrete dam spillway with water catching the reflection of floodlights; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a tiny cluster of two turbines barely visible on a dark horizon line at far right. The sky is completely black with faint stars, no twilight, no moon — a deep summer night. The foreground shows lush green deciduous trees and tall grass appropriate for late June, visible only where sodium streetlamps cast amber pools of light along a country road. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a warm humid haze softening distant lights, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial glow and enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with layered haze. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, aluminium nacelle housings, reinforced-concrete cooling tower shells with visible ribbing, steel exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.