Brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a 38.6 GW supply against 59 GW demand, requiring ~20 GW net imports under heavy overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 20%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
47%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.8 GW
Solar
38.6 GW
Total generation
-20.3 GW
Net import
147.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
360
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-left as compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a dark-bricked power station with conveyor belts and a single large chimney; solar 7.8 GW occupies the mid-ground right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels reflecting only dull grey light; biomass 4.5 GW is visible as a wood-chip-fed CHP facility with a modest smokestack and stored timber piles in the right background; wind onshore 3.7 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.3 GW appears as faint turbine silhouettes on a far horizon; hydro 2.0 GW is shown as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-right foreground. Time is 07:00 dawn in early May: the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn pallor with no direct sunlight, a thick 94% overcast ceiling pressing low; the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, consistent with a 147 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a cool 7.8 °C; sparse early-spring vegetation — pale green buds on bare deciduous trees, damp dark soil. Air is nearly still at 3.7 km/h, smoke and steam rising almost vertically. High-voltage transmission lines cross the scene, hinting at import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with muted earth tones and steel blues — yet every technological element is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling-tower hyperbolic curvature, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.