Cold, calm dawn drives heavy coal and gas generation with 19 GW net imports at 160 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 7%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 25%
37%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
43.0 GW
Total generation
-19.2 GW
Net import
160.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
-1.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
41% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
429
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the frigid air; natural gas 10.3 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting hot gases; hard coal 6.3 GW appears centre-right as a classic coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a pair of tall chimneys; wind onshore 5.2 GW occupies the right background as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers with rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a grey horizon line at far right; solar 2.9 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the dim sky; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a single squat smokestack and steam wisps, positioned between the gas and coal stations; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway visible at the far left edge. Time is early dawn at 07:00 in April: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet visible, 41% cloud cover rendered as fragmented stratus drifting across the pre-dawn sky. Temperature is minus one degree Celsius: frost coats the bare fields, thin ice rims puddles, and the vegetation is sparse early-spring brown with no green buds yet. Wind is nearly absent at 1.9 km/h — no motion in grasses, smoke and steam rise vertically. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the extreme 160 EUR/MWh price: a leaden, brooding quality pervades the air, industrial haze settling low. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark tones, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's industrial sublime — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel frame. No text, no labels.