Brown coal and net imports dominate as solar fades on a warm solstice evening with 17 GW shortfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 26%
48%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
30.4 GW
Total generation
-17.1 GW
Net import
150.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 26.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
363
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white-grey steam plumes into the dark sky; wind onshore 6.6 GW occupies the centre-right as a sweeping line of modern three-blade wind turbines on lattice towers stretching across gently rolling farmland, blades slowly turning in light wind; natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-scale industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single squat smokestack glowing warmly; hard coal 2.8 GW sits behind the lignite station as a smaller conventional power plant with twin stacks; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested in the far background as faint red aviation warning lights on distant turbines at the horizon; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete dam with overflow spillway at the far right edge. Time is 21:00 in late June in central Germany — the sky is deep navy-blue to black, the last trace of astronomical twilight entirely gone, no sunset glow, no twilight, a fully dark summer night. The scene is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, by the industrial glow of the power stations — amber floodlights on cooling towers, lit control rooms, glowing furnace mouths — and by faint red warning lights on the wind turbines. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and hazy, reflecting the high electricity price and residual warmth of 26 °C; vegetation is lush midsummer green visible only where artificial light touches it — tall grass, deciduous trees in full leaf. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines on steel pylons cross the scene, symbolising the heavy imports. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark colour palette of navy, amber, charcoal, and warm ochre; visible thick brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.