Coal, gas, and fading solar dominate as low wind and high demand drive 9.4 GW of imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 30%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
55%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.7 GW
Solar
45.7 GW
Total generation
-9.5 GW
Net import
130.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 121.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
307
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 7.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.1 GW appears centre-right as a dark brick power station with a single large smokestack trailing faint emissions; solar 13.7 GW fills the right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting dull grey light under complete cloud cover; wind onshore 4.5 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on low hills behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a distant grey horizon line near a faint sea; biomass 4.3 GW is a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a short stack and stored timber piles at far left; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station with spillway visible at the far right edge near a green riverbank. TIME OF DAY: 17:00 in April — late-afternoon dusk beginning, the sky is entirely overcast with heavy stratiform cloud in tones of slate and pewter, an orange-red glow barely emerging at the very lowest horizon edge in the west, the upper sky darkening to grey-blue. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, matching a high electricity price. Vegetation is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, bright green grass. Temperature is mild at nearly 12°C. Wind is gentle, shown by slightly swaying grasses and slowly rotating turbine blades. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, brooding colour palette of amber, slate, steel-blue, and moss green; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with haze between foreground industrial structures and distant horizon; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower ribbing, and smokestack. The scene conveys the monumental scale of industrial energy infrastructure set against a vast, cloud-laden spring landscape. No text, no labels.