Coal and gas dominate at dawn as near-calm winds, full cloud cover, and cold temperatures drive high imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 1%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 27%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 27%
34%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
37.1 GW
Total generation
-19.7 GW
Net import
148.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
440
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.8 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; natural gas 10.0 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; wind onshore 4.6 GW is represented by a sparse row of five three-blade turbines on a distant ridge with rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as two faint turbines on a far horizon line; biomass 4.3 GW is a mid-sized biomass facility with rounded wood-chip silos and a modest chimney trailing pale smoke, placed between the coal and the wind turbines; hydro 1.7 GW is a small run-of-river station visible at a river bend in the middle ground with water flowing over a weir. The sky is pre-dawn at 06:00 in April: deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sun visible, complete overcast with low heavy stratus clouds pressing down oppressively. Temperature is near freezing: frost coats the bare early-spring grass and leafless trees in the foreground, thin ice edges a stream. The air is dead calm, no motion in vegetation. Sodium streetlights glow amber along a road in the foreground. The cooling towers and industrial facilities are lit by their own operational lighting, casting orange and white reflections on wet ground. The atmosphere is heavy, dense, and oppressive, conveying high energy cost. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blue, iron grey, amber, and muted ochre — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant turbines. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, aluminium-framed equipment housings on CCGT stacks, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower surfaces with condensation streaks. No text, no labels.