Gas and brown coal dominate but 20.8 GW net imports are needed as wind collapses and solar is absent.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 33%
Brown coal 33%
34%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.1 GW
Total generation
-20.8 GW
Net import
180.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
12% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
431
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white steam plumes into the night sky, glowing orange from internal furnace light; natural gas 9.0 GW fills the centre-left as a sprawling CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks topped by gas flares and lit by sodium-yellow industrial floodlights; biomass 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial biomass boiler buildings with wood-chip conveyors and moderate chimneys emitting pale grey exhaust, warmly lit from within; wind onshore 2.8 GW occupies the right background as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a small dam and powerhouse in the far right valley, water gleaming under artificial light; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by distant tiny blinking lights on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black vault with scattered stars visible through only 12% cloud cover, absolutely no twilight or sky glow. The mild 9.6°C March temperature shows in early spring vegetation — bare-branched trees with first tiny buds, damp brown grass. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the tension of the 180.9 EUR/MWh price — an ominous amber-orange industrial haze clings low along the horizon from the coal and gas plants, sodium streetlights cast harsh pools of light on access roads. High-voltage transmission pylons with glowing insulators stretch across the scene toward the borders, symbolizing the enormous import flow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dramatic chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT stack detail. No text, no labels.