Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate overnight generation as low wind and zero solar force 9.5 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 24%
40%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
-9.6 GW
Net import
100.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
404
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black sky; natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and orange-lit turbine halls; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single large chimney trailing darker smoke; wind onshore 6.2 GW stretches across the right side as a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking faintly, rotors turning very slowly in near-calm air; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbine lights barely visible above a dark sea line; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single exhaust stack, warmly lit from within, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a concrete run-of-river dam with sluice gates in the lower foreground, lit by a few sodium lamps reflecting on dark water. The sky is completely black with full 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy, oppressive overcast pressing down, reinforcing the high electricity price atmosphere. Temperature is a cool 9°C spring night: early budding deciduous trees are barely visible, grass damp. Sodium-orange streetlights and industrial floodlights provide the only illumination, casting warm pools on wet roads and steam clouds. The overall mood is sombre, industrially active, the landscape humming with thermal generation under a low, dark ceiling. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric depth receding into blackness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT stack. No text, no labels.