Brown coal, gas, and imports dominate a calm, windless spring night with zero solar and high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 29%
36%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.2 GW
Total generation
-18.8 GW
Net import
140.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
3% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
440
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white-grey steam plumes into the night sky; natural gas 6.5 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.5 GW appears centre-right as a coal-fired station with a single large stack and conveyor belts visible under arc lighting; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as two mid-sized industrial plants with cylindrical wood-pellet silos and modest chimneys, warm interior light glowing from their buildings, positioned right of centre; wind onshore 3.8 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, their red aviation warning lights blinking faintly, rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a concrete dam with spillway visible in the far background, subtly lit; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a single distant turbine silhouette near the horizon. The sky is completely dark — deep black-navy, no twilight glow, no sunset remnants — it is 21:00 in late April, fully night. A clear sky with only 3% cloud cover reveals scattered stars overhead, but the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy near the ground from industrial emissions, reflecting the 140.7 EUR/MWh price tension. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees — is barely visible under the amber wash of streetlights along a road in the foreground. Temperature is mild at 12°C; no frost, no breath-mist. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene diagonally, symbolising the 18.8 GW of imports flowing in. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich colour palette of deep navy, warm amber, cool steel grey, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze around the cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every aluminium-framed structure. No text, no labels.