Brown coal leads at 9.2 GW as high demand and fading solar drive 19.7 GW net imports at near-200 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 23%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 23%
55%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.9 GW
Solar
39.6 GW
Total generation
-19.8 GW
Net import
198.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.0°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 162.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
315
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers billowing thick white steam into the overcast sky; solar 8.9 GW appears as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces reflecting dull grey light; wind onshore 6.0 GW fills the right-centre as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; natural gas 5.7 GW stands centre-right as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a squat chimney and conveyor belt near the right foreground; hard coal 2.8 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single coal-fired station with a tall brick stack trailing grey smoke; hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete dam and spillway visible in the far-right valley; wind offshore 1.2 GW is a small cluster of sea-based turbines barely visible on a distant grey horizon line. The time is 19:00 in late June—dusk is beginning: the sky is a heavy, oppressive uniform overcast with a faint warm orange-amber glow only along the lowest edge of the western horizon, the upper sky darkening to slate grey. Temperature is 28 °C: lush midsummer vegetation, deep green deciduous trees with full canopies, tall grass slightly wilted by heat. The atmosphere feels dense, humid, and pressured—haze softens distant objects. Light wind barely stirs the leaves. The mood is tense and weighty, reflecting extreme electricity prices. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layered aerial perspective, warm earth tones contrasting cool industrial greys. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV cell grid patterns, CCGT heat-recovery casings. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured—only the vast industrial landscape under a brooding summer dusk sky.