Brown coal, gas, and heavy imports sustain 57.7 GW demand as wind and solar falter on an overcast evening.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 2%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
32%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.5 GW
Solar
31.4 GW
Total generation
-26.3 GW
Net import
221.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
456
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the black sky, their concrete shells lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 8.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, its stack glowing red at the tip; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized timber-clad generating hall with a tall round chimney and a mound of woodchip fuel visible under shelter lights, positioned right of centre; wind onshore 2.4 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at far right, their nacelle warning lights blinking red in the darkness, rotors barely turning in the 4.8 km/h breeze; hydro 2.3 GW is suggested by a concrete dam and spillway in the right foreground, water gleaming faintly under a single floodlight; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a barely visible pair of turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark — 20:00 in May, no twilight remains, heavy 100% overcast blocking all stars, rendered as a deep oppressive charcoal-black canopy pressing down on the scene, conveying the extreme 221.5 EUR/MWh price through a thick, suffocating atmosphere. Temperature is a cool 8.7°C: bare early-spring trees with just-emerging buds line a canal in the foreground, their branches wet and dark. Puddles on industrial roads reflect sodium-orange and mercury-white lights. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the murk in both directions, cables humming with imported power. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime industrial darkness — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.