Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate as near-calm winds and heavy cloud cover drive 19 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 18%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 29%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 23%
33%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.9 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
-19.3 GW
Net import
200.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
2.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81% / 0.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
442
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 10.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into overcast skies; natural gas 12.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT power plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting pale flue gas; hard coal 6.6 GW appears centre-right as a sprawling coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a large coal stockpile; solar 7.9 GW is rendered in the right-centre as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under heavy grey cloud, reflecting only diffuse grey light — no direct sunshine; biomass 4.2 GW occupies a modest area at right as a timber-clad biomass plant with a conical wood-chip silo and single smokestack; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station at the far right edge beside a cold river; wind onshore 1.1 GW appears as a few distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors barely turning. Time is 08:00 in early April: full overcast daylight, flat and grey with 81% cloud cover, no visible sun, diffuse illumination casting almost no shadows. Temperature is near freezing — bare deciduous trees, frost on grass, patches of old snow in furrows. The air is still, nearly windless, smoke and steam plumes rise almost vertically, creating a heavy, oppressive, stagnant atmosphere befitting a 200 EUR/MWh price. Across the far background, high-voltage transmission lines on lattice pylons recede toward the eastern horizon, subtly suggesting cross-border import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered fog and haze between the industrial structures. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, lattice towers for wind; aluminium module frames and blue-black crystalline cells for solar; hyperbolic concrete shells with condensation plumes for lignite cooling towers; steel exhaust stacks and gas turbine housings for CCGT. The mood is solemn, weighty, industrial — a masterwork painting of an energy-stressed landscape under a cold grey sky. No text, no labels.