Brown coal and gas dominate a wind-still night as 17.6 GW of net imports fill the generation gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 32%
31%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
26.6 GW
Total generation
-17.6 GW
Net import
122.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
479
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 into the black sky; natural gas 6.2 GW fills the center-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing heat haze; biomass 4.0 GW appears center-right as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and a single broad smokestack with faint amber glow; hard coal 3.7 GW sits right-of-center as a classical coal plant with two rectangular cooling towers and coal bunkers under sodium lighting; wind onshore 2.6 GW is represented by a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the far right, rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far background with water glinting under floodlights. TIME: 02:00 — completely dark night, no twilight, no sky glow whatsoever, deep black sky with 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange industrial lighting on each plant, glowing control-room windows, red aviation warning lights atop cooling towers and turbine nacelles, and the incandescent glow from furnace openings. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low thick clouds press down, catching the orange industrial light from below in an uneasy haze. Spring vegetation at 12.7°C: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees visible only where caught by artificial light. No wind movement in trees or smoke — perfectly still air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the glowing industrial complexes and surrounding darkness, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and gas-stack geometry. The mood evokes Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime. No text, no labels.