Coal, gas, and moderate wind power a cool spring night as Germany draws 11.4 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 21%
39%
Renewable share
10.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.0 GW
Total generation
-11.4 GW
Net import
135.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
45% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
405
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the night; natural gas 9.9 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze; hard coal 6.0 GW appears centre-right as a blocky coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belt feeding hoppers; wind onshore 8.1 GW spans the right third as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 2.1 GW visible as distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark North Sea sliver; biomass 4.4 GW rendered as a wood-chip-fueled CHP plant with a modest stack and warm interior glow mid-scene; hydro 1.1 GW shown as a small dam spillway in the lower-right foreground with white water cascading. Time is 22:00 — completely dark sky, deep navy to black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars barely visible through 45% cloud cover. All facilities lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights casting pools of amber on concrete and steel. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the high 135 EUR/MWh price — low haze clings to the ground, steam merges with cloud. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, damp brown grass, patches of lingering frost catching the industrial light. Temperature 5.6°C conveyed through visible breath-like condensation near ground level. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between warm industrial glow and cold surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with layered mist, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower ribbing, gas-turbine exhaust diffusers, coal conveyor structures. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.