Brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a 34.1 GW domestic supply against 59.5 GW demand under full overcast with minimal wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 10%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
39%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.6 GW
Solar
34.1 GW
Total generation
-25.3 GW
Net import
185.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
410
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts feeding lignite into boiler houses. Natural gas 8.4 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and coal stockpile. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fueled CHP plant with a domed silo and modest stack, positioned just right of centre. Solar 3.6 GW appears as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the middle distance, but they are dark and inert, reflecting only grey sky — no sunshine at all. Wind onshore 2.6 GW is a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the right background, rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint suggestion of two distant offshore turbines on the far-right horizon. Hydro 2.3 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the right foreground. The sky is completely overcast at 19:00 in May — dusk conditions with only a faint residual amber-orange glow at the very lowest horizon line, rapidly fading, the upper sky already deep slate-grey trending to near-darkness. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 185.7 EUR/MWh price: low clouds press down, humidity visible as haze around the cooling towers. Temperature is cool at 8.9°C; spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued in the dim light. Foreground meadow grass bends slightly in a gentle breeze. The entire landscape is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through layered haze, warm industrial glows from furnace windows contrasting with the cold grey sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.