Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a windless, sunless late-winter night requiring 13 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 36%
25%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.2 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
140.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
523
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 8.7 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a dark blocky coal-fired power station with a pair of broad chimneys trailing pale smoke; biomass 4.1 GW sits to the right as a mid-sized facility with wood-chip conveyors and a modest stack glowing warm; wind onshore 1.8 GW and wind offshore 1.8 GW appear as a sparse handful of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers at the far right, their rotors virtually still in the dead calm; hydro 1.1 GW is hinted as a small dam structure with faintly lit spillway at the far-right edge. The sky is completely black and starless, heavy with 100% overcast cloud that absorbs all celestial light — no moon, no twilight, only an oppressive dark canopy pressing down. The entire scene is illuminated solely by artificial light: sodium streetlamps casting orange pools along access roads, fluorescent strip lighting in plant windows, red aviation warning lights atop stacks and towers. Bare deciduous trees with no foliage line the foreground, frost glinting on brown winter grass at 4°C. A sense of heavy, expensive atmosphere pervades — thick industrial haze, weighty clouds pressing low. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective through layers of industrial haze and steam — but with meticulous engineering accuracy: correct turbine nacelle shapes, aluminium-clad structures, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT gas turbine exhaust configurations. The mood is sombre, industrious, monumental. No text, no labels.