Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate nighttime generation as cold temperatures and absent solar drive 10 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 26%
43%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.3 GW
Total generation
-10.0 GW
Net import
121.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.9°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
398
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the black night sky; natural gas 8.5 GW fills the centre-left as a modern CCGT facility with twin slender exhaust stacks glowing with orange sodium lighting; hard coal 5.5 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor infrastructure lit by harsh industrial floodlights; wind onshore 10.5 GW spans the right third as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a dark ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking, rotors barely turning in the near-still air; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested far right as distant clusters of turbine lights just above a dark horizon; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-fired plant with a single squat chimney and a softly lit biomass storage dome in the mid-ground; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure in the far background, water glinting faintly under floodlights. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no glow, deep winter-night darkness — with only scattered cold stars visible through perfectly clear skies. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: dense industrial haze clings to the valley floor, trapping warm amber and sodium-yellow artificial light in low fog. The ground is frosted, bare early-spring branches without leaves, patches of remnant snow, temperature near freezing. No solar panels anywhere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime darkness merged with meticulous industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between glowing facilities and the engulfing night, atmospheric depth receding into coal-haze, technically precise engineering details on turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles, and gas turbine exhaust structures. No text, no labels.