Gas, brown coal, and hard coal carry a late-night grid heavily dependent on imports under calm, overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 25%
32%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.3 GW
Total generation
-16.5 GW
Net import
132.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
458
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black sky; natural gas 8.6 GW fills the center-left as a bank of compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks glowing faintly orange from internal combustion light; hard coal 5.1 GW appears center-right as a large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler houses and a single wide chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a cluster of smaller industrial plants with wood-chip conveyors and modest stacks behind chain-link fencing; wind onshore 3.9 GW occupies the right portion as a modest row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors nearly still in the calm air; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure at the far right edge with illuminated spillway; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a faint silhouette of two turbines on the distant horizon. The scene is set at 23:00 on a cold April night — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 97% cloud cover creating an oppressive low ceiling that reflects the orange sodium glow of industrial lighting from below. Temperature is 5°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest buds, frost-tinged grass in foreground. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, reflecting the high 132 EUR/MWh price — thick industrial haze, sodium-yellow and amber artificial lights casting sharp pools on wet tarmac and concrete. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede toward the horizon, symbolizing the import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of blacks, deep navy, amber, and burnt orange — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, exhaust stack, and power line insulator. No text, no labels.