Gas, brown coal, and wind dominate a cool April night requiring 9.3 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 21%
40%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.8 GW
Total generation
-9.3 GW
Net import
124.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
399
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a sprawling lignite power station with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium floodlights; natural gas 9.3 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting faint heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with interior fluorescent light; hard coal 5.7 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal plant with rectangular boiler house and a single large chimney trailing a grey plume, conveyor belts dimly visible under industrial lighting; wind onshore 8.1 GW fills the right third as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching along a ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors turning at moderate speed; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a faint row of turbine lights on a distant dark horizon; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-pellet plant with a squat stack and warm amber-lit storage silos nestled between the gas and coal installations; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam structure at the far left edge with water spilling over a weir, lit by a single floodlight. The scene is set at 23:00 on a cool early-April night — the sky is completely black and heavily overcast with no stars or moon visible, creating an oppressive low ceiling that reflects the orange-sodium glow of the industrial complex below. Bare early-spring trees with just the faintest buds line the foreground, their branches leafless in the 5 °C chill. A light ground-level mist drifts across plowed fields. The atmosphere is heavy, dense, and weighty, evoking the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with receding layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack, in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism. No text, no labels.