Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as full overcast and light winds suppress renewables, driving 23 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 21%
46%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.3 GW
Solar
39.9 GW
Total generation
-23.2 GW
Net import
173.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
364
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 8.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thinner heat shimmer; hard coal 4.6 GW appears centre-right as a pair of older coal plants with stocky chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark coal piles; wind onshore 6.5 GW spans the right third as a distant line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 1.4 GW is hinted far right as a handful of turbines on the misty horizon above a grey sea inlet; solar 4.3 GW appears as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light with no glint or shine; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack near the wind turbines; hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river station visible in a valley on the far right with water flowing over a low weir. The sky is entirely overcast with a heavy, low, uniform layer of grey clouds pressing down oppressively — no break in the cloud, no sun visible, diffuse flat daylight of a spring morning at 08:00. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly suffocating, hinting at the high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 8°C: bare early-spring trees with only the faintest buds, damp brown grass, patches of mist in the river valley. The landscape is a broad German lowland plain, industrial and agricultural. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the mid-ground carrying thick conductor bundles, visually suggesting the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich sombre colour palette of greys, ochres, and muted greens, visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower profiles, PV panel grid patterns. The scene feels like a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.