Brown coal and imports dominate as overcast skies and evening demand push prices above 160 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 6%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 24%
49%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
35.0 GW
Total generation
-24.1 GW
Net import
163.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
359
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes into the heavy sky; onshore wind 6.9 GW fills the centre-right as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning moderately in the breeze across rolling green spring fields; natural gas 5.5 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plant buildings with slender single exhaust stacks venting thin white streams; biomass 4.5 GW sits in the mid-ground as a squat industrial facility with a tall cylindrical silo and a gently smoking chimney beside a woodchip storage yard; hard coal 3.9 GW occupies the far left as a single large conventional power station with a broad rectangular stack and conveyor belts; solar 2.0 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting no sunlight under the oppressive overcast; hydro 2.0 GW is represented by a concrete dam with spillway visible in the distant right valley; offshore wind 1.7 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a hazy horizon line. The time is 19:00 in early May — deep dusk, the sky a heavy leaden grey-violet with a thin band of dying orange-red light along the far western horizon, rapidly fading; the upper sky darkens toward charcoal. Cloud cover is total, dense and low, pressing down on the landscape with an oppressive, heavy atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 16°C; spring vegetation is lush bright green on the hillsides, wildflowers beginning in the meadows, birch and beech trees in full young leaf. Sodium streetlights along a country road in the foreground are just flickering on, casting warm amber pools. The overall mood is brooding industrial twilight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, luminous contrast between the warm industrial glow of power plants and the cold darkening sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.