Brown coal and gas dominate thermal output as weak wind and negligible solar force heavy imports at 136 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 8%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
48%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.8 GW
Solar
33.6 GW
Total generation
-12.3 GW
Net import
136.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.5°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
361
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; natural gas 6.2 GW appears center-left as two modern CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind as a classical coal plant with a pair of rectangular boiler houses and a single large smokestack; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered center-right as a cluster of industrial wood-chip facilities with ribbed cylindrical silos and modest exhaust columns; wind onshore 4.1 GW occupies the right background as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors nearly motionless in calm air; wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested by distant turbines barely visible on a flat grey horizon line at the far right; solar 2.8 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and reflective only of grey cloud, catching no direct light; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning water in the lower-right corner. TIME AND ATMOSPHERE: pre-dawn at 06:00, deep blue-grey sky with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, full 100% overcast creating a heavy oppressive ceiling of cloud pressing down on the landscape. Temperature is 5.5°C in mid-May: spring vegetation is present but subdued — fresh green grass touched with frost, budding deciduous trees not yet in full leaf. The air feels cold and still, with virtually no wind movement in the grasses or branches. The high electricity price is reflected in the atmosphere's weight and density — thick, brooding, claustrophobic cloud layers with no breaks. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of slate blues, ochres, and industrial greys, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze between the power stations, dramatic chiaroscuro from the artificial sodium-orange glow of the industrial facilities against the dark pre-dawn sky. Meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel frame. No text, no labels.