Brown coal, wind, and gas anchor a 31.5 GW supply against 45.2 GW demand, requiring 13.7 GW net imports under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 24%
50%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.5 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
128.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 4.8 GW occupies the left-centre as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour trails; hard coal 3.4 GW appears just right of centre as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular chimneys and coal yards; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as medium-scale industrial boiler buildings with wood-chip silos and modest stacks with faint exhaust; wind onshore 8.2 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across gently rolling hills, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.1 GW is visible as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark strip of sea; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway set into a forested valley at the far right edge. The sky is a heavy, unbroken blanket of 100% cloud cover in deep slate-grey and blue-black tones — it is 05:00 pre-dawn in early May, so only the faintest pale steel-blue pre-dawn luminance touches the eastern horizon, the rest of the sky is near-black. No sun, no solar panels anywhere. The landscape is spring-green with fresh deciduous foliage and wildflowers, temperature around 12°C suggesting light mist clinging to low ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — the clouds press low, almost touching the cooling tower plumes. Sodium-orange streetlights and yellow industrial floodlights illuminate the power stations from below, casting warm pools against the cold pre-dawn gloom. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and dark sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.