Gas, brown coal, and wind anchor a night of 11.3 GW net imports under full cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 26%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 18%
44%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.0 GW
Total generation
-11.2 GW
Net import
122.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
369
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Natural gas 9.9 GW dominates the centre-right of the composition as a cluster of large CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting pale steam, lit from below by sodium-orange floodlights. Brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into blackness, flanked by conveyor structures and open-pit mining silhouettes. Hard coal 4.6 GW appears centre-left as a squat industrial complex with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall chimney, red warning lights blinking at its crown. Wind onshore 9.1 GW spans the far right as a long receding row of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation lights pulsing against the void, blades turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.6 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbine lights on a distant dark horizon line. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as two medium-sized plant buildings with squat stacks and glowing furnace grates visible through open doors, positioned between the coal complex and gas plants. Hydro 1.6 GW sits at the far left edge as a concrete dam face with illuminated spillway channels reflecting orange lamplight. The sky is completely black to deep navy with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — an oppressive heavy overcast ceiling pressing down, conveying the high electricity price. The season is early spring: bare branches with the first hints of budding leaves on scattered trees in the foreground; ground-level grass is short and damp. Temperature is cool at 7.8°C, suggested by faint mist curling near the ground. All artificial lighting is warm sodium-orange and cool industrial white. A river or canal in the foreground reflects the scattered industrial lights. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.