Brown coal and gas dominate a calm, low-wind dawn requiring 23.9 GW net imports to meet demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 2%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 27%
40%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
28.3 GW
Total generation
-23.9 GW
Net import
110.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
5% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
411
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; natural gas 5.9 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; biomass 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a series of modest industrial facilities with wood-chip conveyors and short chimneys trailing thin smoke; onshore wind 4.4 GW occupies the right portion as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors barely turning in the still air; hard coal 3.1 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single square stack; hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a stone dam in the mid-distance with modest water flow; offshore wind 0.6 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a distant horizon; solar 0.6 GW is shown as a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, surfaces dark, reflecting only the faintest sky light. TIME OF DAY: early dawn at 06:00 in April — a deep blue-grey sky with the faintest pale luminance on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, the landscape lit primarily by sodium-orange industrial lights and glowing facility windows. The sky is nearly clear with only 5% cloud cover, stars still faintly visible overhead. WEATHER: 8.6°C spring morning, fresh green grass and early-leafing trees with dew, almost no wind — smoke and steam rise nearly vertically. ATMOSPHERE: oppressive and heavy despite the clear sky, a brooding industrial weight conveying the high electricity price; the air feels thick and laden with cost. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial realism — rich dark blues, warm sodium glows, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and the pre-dawn darkness. Every technology rendered with correct engineering detail: three-blade rotors with nacelles, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers, CCGT stacks, conveyor infrastructure. No text, no labels.