Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as near-zero wind and cold temperatures drive 19.2 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 20%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 30%
38%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.3 GW
Solar
41.0 GW
Total generation
-19.2 GW
Net import
186.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-1.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
69% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
436
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 12.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with five hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a large conventional coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall chimney; solar 8.3 GW is rendered as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting only the dull grey sky with no direct sunlight glint; biomass 4.4 GW sits behind the solar field as a compact wood-chip plant with a modest stack and stored timber piles; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam and reservoir in the far right middle distance; wind onshore 0.9 GW is represented by two distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.6 GW appears as a faint silhouette of two turbines on a far-off grey horizon line. TIME AND LIGHT: early dawn at 07:00 in late March — the sky is deep blue-grey shifting to a pale cold strip of pre-dawn light along the eastern horizon, no direct sun visible, all surfaces lit by diffuse twilight. The ground is frosted white, bare trees with no leaves, patches of old snow, temperature visibly below freezing with frost on metal structures. The air feels oppressive and heavy — thick low cloud cover at 69 %, ceiling pressing down — conveying the high electricity price through atmospheric weight and density. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede toward the horizon, symbolising import flows. 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 slate blues, iron greys, warm amber from industrial lighting, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze and depth. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors on lattice towers, PV panel cell grids, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT turbine housings. The overall composition evokes sublime industrial grandeur under a cold, brooding winter dawn. No text, no labels.