Evening demand peak drives heavy coal, gas, and imports alongside moderate onshore wind with no solar.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 24%
47%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
-10.1 GW
Net import
148.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
366
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with billowing white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 5.1 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts, stockpiles, and a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; natural gas 8.8 GW fills the centre as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; onshore wind 16.5 GW spans the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, blades turning slowly in light wind; offshore wind 1.0 GW is glimpsed as a few distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack glowing warmly; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the lower-right foreground. Time is 20:00 in March — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, with faint cold stars visible above. All structures are lit only by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlights, white industrial floodlights, and warm glowing windows on control buildings. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze thickens the air around the thermal plants. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, pale dormant grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep colour palette of navy, amber, and steel grey, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial mist, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower frameworks, and CCGT exhaust geometry. The painting conveys the sublime tension between nature's darkness and industry's relentless glow. No text, no labels.