Gas, brown coal, and modest wind anchor a 25.6 GW domestic supply requiring 19.5 GW net imports at nightfall.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 0%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
25.6 GW
Total generation
-19.4 GW
Net import
154.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
281
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 7.3 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers across rolling green hills in the right third of the scene, their rotors barely turning in negligible wind. Natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin white plumes, lit by amber sodium lamps. Brown coal 4.7 GW dominates the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick billowing steam, lit from below by orange industrial floodlights, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall chimney and wood-chip storage silos beside it, warmly illuminated, positioned between the gas plants and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with cascading water in the distant centre background, faintly lit. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single stack and red aircraft warning lights, nestled beside the brown coal complex. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, fully overcast with no stars, no twilight glow, no moon, heavy oppressive low clouds faintly reflecting the orange industrial light from below, conveying the tension of a 154 EUR/MWh price. The season is late spring: lush green meadows and leafy deciduous trees frame the foreground, temperature is warm at 21.5°C so the air feels humid and close. The entire scene is painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colours, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blackened sky and the glowing industrial installations, atmospheric depth with haze between the layers of infrastructure. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.