Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a cold, calm, overcast dawn with 17.4 GW net imports needed.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 28%
37%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
40.6 GW
Total generation
-17.4 GW
Net import
148.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
437
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.5 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky; natural gas 8.2 GW fills the centre-left as two CCGT combined-cycle units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting faint heat shimmer; hard coal 5.6 GW appears centre-right as a classical coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; wind onshore 5.4 GW is rendered as a row of five three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at right, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 3.9 GW is suggested by smaller turbines visible on a far grey horizon line beyond a frozen river; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed plant with a modest rectangular stack and timber yard in the mid-right ground; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam visible at the far right edge; solar 0.3 GW is represented only by a few aluminium-framed crystalline panels on a nearby rooftop, completely dark and inactive, reflecting no light. Time of day is 06:00 dawn in mid-March: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale lavender-grey band at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky; 94 percent cloud cover forms a thick unbroken overcast pressing down oppressively. Temperature is near freezing: frost rims the foreground grass and bare birch branches, thin ice edges the river, breath-like mist hangs at ground level. The wind is nearly still, no motion in vegetation or turbine blades. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, conveying the tension of a 148 EUR/MWh price—smothering grey clouds, a sense of industrial strain. High-voltage transmission lines recede toward the horizon, symbolising the 17.4 GW flowing in from beyond the frame. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmospherics combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich dark palette of slate grey, coal black, deep Prussian blue, and dull amber from sodium facility lighting, with visible thick brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and steel lattice tower. No text, no labels.