Brown coal and fossil thermal plants dominate as cold, calm, overcast conditions suppress renewables and drive high imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 12%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 34%
35%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.6 GW
Solar
38.7 GW
Total generation
-8.9 GW
Net import
139.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-1.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84% / 0.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
464
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Ice Hour
Image prompt
Brown coal 13.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers rising in pairs, thick white steam plumes drifting heavily in still air; hard coal 5.2 GW appears as a cluster of large coal-fired boiler houses with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor gantries just left of centre; natural gas 6.9 GW fills the centre-right as a row of modern CCGT units with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks and visible heat-recovery steam generators; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground group of smaller industrial plants with rounded wood-chip silos and modest chimneys releasing thin grey smoke; solar 4.6 GW appears as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and grey reflecting only flat overcast light, no sunshine; wind onshore 3.3 GW is shown as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on low hills at right, blades nearly motionless in negligible wind; wind offshore 0.1 GW is a single barely visible turbine silhouette on the far horizon; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a modest spillway in the far right background. Time is early dawn at 07:00 in late March — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn glow on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones yet. Temperature is below freezing: thin frost coats the ground, bare deciduous trees with no leaves, patches of old snow on fields. Cloud cover is 84%, a thick oppressive blanket of stratus pressing low overhead, enhancing a heavy, tense atmosphere consistent with very high electricity prices. The air is perfectly still. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark, muted colour palette of slate grey, umber, ochre, and cold blue; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with industrial haze softening distant cooling towers; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, PV panel frame, and cooling tower shell. The composition evokes both the sublime grandeur and melancholy of heavy industry at the threshold of a cold winter dawn. No text, no labels.