Cold, windless overcast morning drives brown coal and gas dominance at 158 EUR/MWh with 17.5 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 18%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 27%
42%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.8 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
-17.5 GW
Net import
158.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-1.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
402
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
Ice Hour
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Brown coal 11.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power station complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into heavy grey sky; natural gas 9.2 GW fills the center-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin columns of heat haze; solar 7.8 GW appears center-right as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and grey under the oppressive overcast with no sun glint; wind onshore 4.7 GW is visible as a modest row of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a low ridge in the right-center, their blades nearly motionless in the still air; hard coal 4.5 GW appears as a traditional coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure in the mid-distance behind the gas plants; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired facility with a squat industrial building and single flue to the far right; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the deep background right; wind offshore 0.2 GW is a faint silhouette of two turbines on the far horizon line. Time of day is dawn at 07:00 in March — the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn light with no direct sunlight, the eastern horizon showing only the faintest cold pale band beneath unbroken dense stratus clouds covering 100% of the sky. Temperature is -1.4°C: frost coats the bare winter fields, leafless trees, and frozen puddles in rutted ground; breath-like condensation visible near ground-level vents. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and still, reflecting the extreme electricity price — a brooding weight presses down from the cloud ceiling. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, somber colour palette of slate greys, umber browns, cold blues, and muted whites; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze softening distant elements; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. The scene conveys a monumental industrial winter landscape, solemn and still, like a masterwork painting of energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.