Coal, gas, and moderate wind share overnight generation as cold temperatures lift demand and imports bridge a 7.1 GW gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 20%
51%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-7.1 GW
Net import
112.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
342
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps at their base; hard coal 4.6 GW appears just right of centre as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall rectangular stack and red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin pale vapour, floodlit in harsh white light; wind onshore 11.0 GW fills the right third as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat open plain, their nacelle lights blinking red in the darkness, blades slowly turning in light wind; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant tiny red lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a domed storage silo and a single smokestack, warmly lit, positioned between the coal and gas stations; hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam with illuminated spillway in the foreground valley. The sky is completely black with a deep navy tone near the horizon, no moon visible, perfectly clear with faint stars overhead, creating a cold crystalline atmosphere. The ground shows frost-covered fields and bare early-spring trees with no leaves, temperature near freezing conveyed by mist hugging the lowlands. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting high electricity prices — a brooding, weighty industrial darkness pressing down. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of blacks, indigos, burnt oranges, and cold whites — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with correct proportions, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.