Brown coal and gas anchor a 24.5 GW supply against 38.1 GW demand, with 13.6 GW net imports bridging the gap at high price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 1%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 26%
43%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
24.5 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
123.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
86% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
403
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 6.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky; biomass 4.2 GW appears left-of-centre as a cluster of industrial wood-chip combustion plants with corrugated-steel silos and moderate exhaust columns; onshore wind 3.9 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a low ridge right-of-centre, rotors barely turning in near-still air; natural gas 3.9 GW occupies the centre-right as two compact combined-cycle gas turbine units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.6 GW sits to the right as a coal-fired station with a large rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a tapered chimney with a faint red aviation light; hydro 1.3 GW appears in the far right background as a concrete dam spillway with water catching faint reflected light; offshore wind 1.1 GW is suggested on the distant horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes; solar 0.1 GW is absent — no panels visible. The scene is set at pre-dawn, 05:00 in May: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight; 86% cloud cover forms a heavy low overcast pressing down on the landscape. The air temperature is a chilly 5°C — sparse early-spring vegetation, bare hedgerows, and dew-dampened grass in muted greens and browns. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price: haze and industrial steam merge with the low clouds, sodium-orange streetlights and amber industrial floodlights provide the main illumination, casting warm pools of light on wet asphalt and steel infrastructure. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the misty distance, symbolising the import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of indigo, slate grey, ochre, and burnt sienna; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and lattice tower. No text, no labels.