Brown coal and natural gas dominate a calm, dark, windless evening requiring 25 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 29%
34%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.6 GW
Total generation
-25.1 GW
Net import
194.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
453
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 7.4 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing turbine halls behind chain-link fencing; biomass 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial biomass boiler buildings with wood-chip conveyors and short chimneys trailing pale smoke; hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the biomass as a dark-brick conventional power station with a single large stack and coal hoppers; wind onshore 3.1 GW is represented by a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades nearly still in the negligible wind; hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway in the far right background; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a faint silhouette of two offshore turbines on the far horizon. Time is 21:00 in May — the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow remains, 100% cloud cover obscures all stars. The landscape is a flat German lowland with spring-green grass barely visible under industrial sodium-yellow and blue-white LED lighting from the power stations. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — low clouds reflecting the orange industrial glow, giving the overcast ceiling a smothering amber tint suggesting high electricity prices. No solar panels anywhere. Scattered puddles on access roads reflect the facility lights. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep indigo, burnt sienna, and warm amber; visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes and cloud layer; atmospheric depth achieved through layered industrial haze; each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy including turbine nacelles, lattice transmission towers with sagging conductors, concrete cooling tower ribbing, and pipe racks. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich reimagining an industrial nocturne — sublime, brooding, monumental. No text, no labels.