Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate thermal output as overcast skies limit solar and high demand drives 19.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 22%
46%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.2 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
-19.8 GW
Net import
164.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
362
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a dense cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, flanked by open-pit lignite mines with terraced brown earth; natural gas 10.0 GW fills the centre-left as several tall CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a pair of conventional coal stations with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and shorter stacks trailing darker exhaust; solar 6.2 GW is represented in the right-centre as large fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the thick cloud layer, producing weakly from diffuse light; wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines on rolling green hills in the right background, blades rotating slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.1 GW is a faint row of turbines on a grey sea glimpsed at the far right horizon; biomass 4.4 GW is a modest timber-clad biomass CHP plant with a small stack and woodchip storage in the mid-ground; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with white cascading water at the far left edge. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low, uniform stratocumulus in tones of pewter and slate — no sunlight breaks through, but it is full morning daylight, diffuse and flat, at 08:00 in April. The air feels cool at 7°C; early spring vegetation shows pale green buds on bare birch and beech trees, with brown-green meadow grass still dormant. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price — a dense, weighty ceiling of cloud pressing down on the industrial panorama. High-tension transmission lines with lattice steel pylons stretch across the scene carrying imported power. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich, muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every structure: turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower curvature, PV cell grids, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels.