Coal, gas, and wind each near-equal pillars as 11.4 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 19%
50%
Renewable share
12.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.9 GW
Solar
40.5 GW
Total generation
-11.4 GW
Net import
170.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 23.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
348
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter as four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; hard coal 6.2 GW sits left-of-centre as two large coal-fired boiler houses with tall rectangular stacks trailing dark exhaust; natural gas 6.2 GW occupies the centre as three compact CCGT units with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; wind onshore 7.8 GW fills the right-centre as two dozen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green spring hills, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey sea barely visible through mist; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip power station with a modest stack and steam wisps, placed between the gas plant and onshore wind; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock in a forested valley at far right; solar 1.9 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and reflective under the overcast, catching no direct sun. Time is 19:00 in early April — dusk lighting with a narrow band of orange-red glow clinging to the far horizon, the upper sky darkening rapidly to slate blue-grey, last pale light reflecting off the cooling tower steam. Full 100% cloud cover, no breaks in the overcast, creating a heavy oppressive canopy reflecting the 170 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is mild at 15°C; fresh spring-green grass and budding deciduous trees dot the landscape. Foreground details include muddy access roads, gravel yards, high-voltage transmission pylons with sagging cables stretching toward the viewer suggesting import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of ochre, slate, charcoal, and moss green, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze between layers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and panel frame. The mood is weighty and industrial yet grand, a Caspar David Friedrich scene reimagined for the fossil-renewable twilight age. No text, no labels.