Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as fading solar and light winds drive heavy net imports at sunset.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 17%
Brown coal 22%
41%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
36.6 GW
Total generation
-22.4 GW
Net import
194.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.2°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 118.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
404
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers billowing thick white steam plumes; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 6.1 GW occupies the centre-right as a dark angular coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts carrying fuel; wind onshore 5.5 GW appears in the right background as a scattered row of three-blade turbines on gentle hills, blades barely turning in the light breeze; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a squat industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome near the right foreground; solar 2.0 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching the last horizontal rays; wind offshore 1.5 GW is hinted at far in the background as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant horizon line; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far right middle ground. The sky is a dusk scene at 19:00 in early April — a narrow band of deep orange-red glow lingers along the lower western horizon, the sky above transitioning rapidly from dusky violet to darkening blue-grey, first stars barely visible overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 194 EUR/MWh price — a haze hangs over the industrial facilities, steam and exhaust merging into a brooding pall. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees in the foreground. The landscape is gently rolling central German terrain. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting from the dying sunset against glowing industrial furnace light. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic concrete forms, CCGT stainless steel stacks. Warm sodium-orange artificial light begins to glow from facility windows and security lamps. No text, no labels.