Gas, brown coal, and hard coal dominate a calm, cold April night requiring 15.6 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 31%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 27%
25%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.0 GW
Total generation
-15.6 GW
Net import
152.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.7°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
496
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 12.3 GW occupies the centre-right as a cluster of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale steam into the night; brown coal 10.5 GW fills the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes glowing from internal lighting; hard coal 6.3 GW appears centre-left as a large conventional coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and twin chimneys trailing darker smoke; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed generating station with a low rectangular stack and warm amber-lit fuel storage in the lower left; wind onshore 3.6 GW appears as a scattered row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, blades completely still in the windless air; hydro 1.2 GW is visible as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the far background; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by faint red aviation-warning lights on the far horizon line. The scene is set at 22:00 in early April: the sky is fully dark, deep navy-to-black, cloudless with faint stars visible, a waning crescent moon low on the horizon. The landscape is early spring — bare birch and oak trees with only the faintest bud growth, frost-tinged brown grass, patches of residual snow in shadowed hollows. Temperature reads near freezing: breath-like mist drifts around the industrial structures. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools on access roads between the plants. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a dense industrial haze hanging low despite clear skies above, conveying high energy prices and strained supply. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark Caspar-David-Friedrich-inspired tones with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy: visible turbine nacelles and lattice towers, precise cooling-tower hyperboloid geometry, riveted steel boiler housings, all rendered with thick visible brushwork and deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the glowing industrial light and the surrounding cold darkness. No text, no labels.